Ecological informatics (ecoinformatics) is an interdisciplinary framework for the management, analysis and synthesis of ecological data by advanced computational technology [1]. Management of ecological data aims at facilitating data standardization, retrieval and sharing by means of metadata and object-oriented programming [2–6]. Analysis and synthesis of ecological data aim at elucidating pri...

EDITORIAL article Front. Mar. Sci., 08 October 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.773443

This paper outlines a framework for understanding gameplay from the perspective of ecological psychology. According to this perspective, gameplay can be described in terms of perceiving, acting on and transforming the affordances that are related to a game system or to other players in a game. Challenges in games have an emphasis on perceiving suitable actions and/or performing suitable actions...

© The Ecological Society of America www.frontiersinecology.org A its core, scientific knowledge is a collection of conceptual models that attempt to describe how the natural world works and that have resisted repeated attempts to find empirical data to contradict them. However, solutions to broad-scale and complex environmental challenges often lie beyond the domain of traditional experimental ...

Discusses the interaction between socio-economic systems and their natural environment, by examining the indicators of sustainable development. Areas covered by the operationalization of sustainable development indicators; Details on the global nature of environmental problems; Important strategy of the operationalization of sustainable development; Link between economic data and ecological ind...