This second title of a three-volume series based on research by the influential BEQUEST network examines the methodology of environmental assessment, providing unique insight into critical aspects to sustainable urban development.

1. Introduction Part 1: Environmental Assessment 2. Environmental Assessment Methods within the EU Part 2: Systems Thinking-Based Approaches 3. The Multi-Modal Systems Thinking Approach to Sustainable Evaluation 4. The Human Sustainable City, Values, Approaches and Evaluative Tool 5. The Role of Evaluation in Supporting Human Sustainable Development 6. The Role of Modelling in Urban Sustainability Assessment Part 3: Methods for Environmental Valuations 7. Cost-Benefit Analysis and Multi-Criteria Analysis 8. Contingent Valuation Method 9. The Hedonic Price Method Part 4: Methods for Environmental, Economic and Social Assessments 4.1 Simple, Complex and Advanced Evaluations 10. Analytical Hierarchy Process 11. The Application and Development of Ecological Footprints 12. Urban Spiders: A Comparative Framework for Evaluation and Scenario Analysis 13. The Flag Method 14. Regime Analysis 4.2 Advanced Evaluations of Urban Land Use 15. The Assessment of Multi-Functional Land Use 16. The PROPOLIS Model for Assessing Urban Sustainability 4.3 Advanced Evaluations of Urban Land Use, Buildings and Estates 17. Sustainability Assessment of Building Design and Construction 18. Life Cycle Analysis of Buildings, Groups of Buildings and Urban Fragments 4.4 Very Advanced Evaluations of Neighbourhoods, Districts and Cities19. The AUSTIME Methodology: Quantifiable Sustainability Assessment Coupled with Multi-Agent Simulation 20. H2QR: A Research and Demonstration Project for Assessing Sustainable Neighbourhood Development 21. Assessing Sustainable Community Development Proposals Part 5. Evaluating the Sustainability of Urban Development 22. The Assessment of Environmental Equity and Environmental Justice: Methodological Issues 23. Participative and Inter-Active Evaluation: A Review of the Methodologies 24. Sustainable Urban Futures: From Models to Competing Pathways 25. Conclusions