Ko and Neuberg’s framework links life-history priorities to ecological affordances but foregrounds conditions of relative stability, thereby underrepresenting volatility. Volatility is a constitutive ecological parameter, altering affordance availability and reliability. Incorporating anticipated affordances, stratified resilience, and volatility as a higher-order constraint sharpens the model’s theoretical scope and ecological validity under conditions of systemic crisis.
Heeren, A. (2026). The Missing Ecology in Affordance Management. Behavioral and Brain Sciences : an international journal of current research and theory with open peer commentary, In press. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X25103233 (Original work published 2025)