Everybody agrees on the need to promote a transdisciplinary mindset in ecological economics.
Some suggest using transdisciplinarity as the defining characteristic of the field, so all transdisciplinary studies on environmental issues could be said to belong to the field—whether or not they have any relation to the economics discipline (Proops, personal communication). This view is basically critical towards the preoccupation with reforming disciplines, whereas others find the use of transdisciplinarity as defining characteristic far too broad and meaningless.