Coordinating and implementing ecosystem restoration projects can be challenging when the professions involved have differing perceptions of ecological restoration and implementation in practice. To overcome these barriers in complex restoration projects, we suggest analysing ecosystem restoration as a boundary object, a concept drawn from the field of science and technology studies. We use a large scale restoration project in the Dovre Mountains of Norway to demonstrate the validity of using the boundary object concept in this context. The restoration involves a former military training area where the goal of the project was to protect and restore the environment and allow for civilian use. We examine how the different professions developed sufficient mutual understanding to make the project work. In particular, we explore the extent to which the perceptions of different professions overlap, the diversity of the perceptions in the project and how this might influence the outcome of the restoration. The boundary object concept offers potential to help improve restoration quality and reduce conflicts.

当所涉及的专业对生态恢复和实践的实施有不同的看法时，协调和实施生态系统恢复项目可能具有挑战性。为了克服复杂恢复项目中的这些障碍，我们建议将生态系统恢复作为边界对象进行分析，这是一个来自科学技术研究领域的概念。我们使用挪威多弗尔山脉的一个大规模修复项目来证明在这种情况下使用边界对象概念的有效性。修复涉及一个前军事训练区，该项目的目标是保护和恢复环境并允许民用。我们研究了不同专业如何发展出足够的相互理解以使项目发挥作用。特别是，我们探讨了不同职业的看法重叠的程度、项目中看法的多样性以及这可能如何影响修复的结果。边界对象概念提供了帮助提高修复质量和减少冲突的潜力。