Into the Clouds

INTRODUCTION Ecology and Society aims at integrative science for resilience and sustainability. The work published in this journal reflects the work of scholars attempting to understand and describe the complex interactions between humans and their environment, what we call social-ecological systems. Such descriptions involve words for natural objects; such as trees, landscapes, reindeer, or clouds. As technology creeps more into our world, there is a pattern by which names for natural objects are applied in different ways. One such example is how this editorial was written and edited on an apple computer (Macintosh variety). Another such word is cloud. Indeed, the more common use (per a google search) refers to the use of the word to describe distant agglomerated objects (such as water molecules in the atmosphere), or used in context of lacking details. So it is the spirit of agglomerated objects, we use the word cloud as a way of describing the two recent issues of our journal.