In human culture, environment can become meaningful in literary and artistic representations or through symbolization of animals or landscapes.
Ecosemiotics analyzes processes, transmissions and problems that occur in and between the different semiotic layers of the environment.
The central focus of ecosemiotics concerns the role of concepts (sign-based models people have) in designing and changing the environment.
Concepts of ecosemiotic analysis are, for instance, semiocide, affordance, ecofield, consortium, dissent.
The field was initiated by Winfried Nöth and Kalevi Kull, and later elaborated by Almo Farina and Timo Maran.