Yih-ren Lin is Director and Associate Professor of Graduate Institute of Humanities in Medicine at Taipei Medical University. He received his Ph.D. at University College London’s Department of Geography. His principle research interests are as follows, Socio-cultural Analysis on Nature, Cultural Geography, Political Ecology, Action Research, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Indigenous Peoples, Ecological Medicine. He has been engaged in numerous indigenous community projects and is currently working with the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (IPSI) to promote self-sufficient management of agricultural and natural resources within local communities.