14 pages., Online via journal by open access., Researcher proposed an appropriate mechanism for the maintenance of traditional knowledge associated with wild edible plants, seaweeds, and mushrooms in these ecosystems. Assessment of linkages between traditional knowledge and human well-being showed that both the decline in traditional knowledge and the drivers of change adversely affect fundamental components of human well-being: health, development of good social relations, and security.
Retrieved June 28, 2006, Cautions about this term. "The concept of IPRs is tied to a neo-liberal worldview that says that everything in the world - material goods, creative works, even DNA - can and should be privatised."