1. Challenges to sustainability indicatorsPart I: Crosscutting Issues -- Chapter 2. Meeting conceptual challenges -- Chapter 3. Identifying methodological challenges -- Chapter 4. Ensuring policy relevance -- Part II: General Approaches -- Chapter 5. Indicators: boring statistics or the key to sustainable development? -- Chapter 6. Sustainability indicators: an economist's view -- Chapter 7. The institutional dimension of sustainable development -- Part III: Methodological Aspects -- Chapter 8. Frameworks for environmental assessment and indicators at the EEA -- Chapter 9. Frameworks for policy integration indicators, sustainable development and for evaluating complex scientific evidence -- Chapter 10. Integrated assessment and indicators -- Chapter 11. Qualitative Systems Sustainability Index: A new type of sustainability indicators -- Part IV: System and Sectoral Approaches -- Chapter 12. Indicators of natural resource use and consumption -- Chapter 13. Indicators to measure decoupling of environmental pressure from economic growth -- Chapter 14. Geobiosphere load: proposal for an index -- Chapter 15. Sustainable development and the use of health-and-environment indicators -- Chapter 16. Biodiversity indicators -- Chapter 17. Human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) as indicator for pressures on biodiversity -- Part V: Case Studies -- Chapter 18. The development of UK sustainable development indicators: making indicators work -- Chapter 19. Developing tools for the assessment of sustainable development in the province of Brabant, the Netherlands -- Chapter 20. Sustainability assessment indicators: development and practice in China -- Chapter 21. A Core set of UNEP/GEP Indicators amidst global environmental indices, indicators and data -- Chapter 22. Further work is needed to develop sustainable development indicators -- Chapter 23. The Yale and Columbia Universities' Environmental Sustainability Index 2005 -- Annex. Menu of Selected Sustainable Development Indicators -- List of Contributors -- SCOPE Series List -- SCOPE Executive Committee 2005-2008.