Abstract
Ecological engineering, ecological economics and ecological restoration are all emerging transdisciplinary fields dedicated to tackling wickedly complex problems at the interface of the economic system and the global ecosystems that sustain and contain it. Though these fields emerge from different disciplinary backgrounds, each espouses a systems approach, and each offers a critical part of the solution to the problems we face in the 21st century (Mitsch and Jorgensen, 2003; Daly and Farley, 2004; Society for Ecological Restoration International Science and Policy Working Group, 2004). As emerging transdisciplines, each is still struggling to build consensus on the terminology, methodologies and tools that characterize more mature areas of studies: given our common goals, this consensus should be built across all three fields. Dialogue among the practitioners of these complementary transdisciplines is therefore essential, and we welcome this opportunity for dialogue with Aronson, Blignaut, Milton and Clewell (hereafter
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