chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Application of Indicators for the Assessment of Ecosystem Health / chapter 3 Application of Ecological Indicators to Assess Environmental Quality in Coastal Zones and Transitional Waters: Two Case Studies / chapter 4 Development and Application of Ecosystem Health Indicators in the North American Great Lakes Basin / chapter 5 Application of Ecological and Thermodynamic Indicators for the Assessment of Lake Ecosystem Health / chapter 6 Ecosystem Health Assessment and Bioeconomic Analysis in Coastal Lagoons / chapter 7 Application of Ecological and Thermodynamic Indicators for the Assessment of the Ecosystem Health of Coastal Areas / chapter 8 Application of Ecological Indicators for Assessing Health of Marine Ecosystems / chapter 9 Using Ecological Indicators in a Whole-Ecosystem Wetland Experiment / chapter 10 The Joint Use of Exergy and Emergy as Indicators of Ecosystems Performances / chapter 11 Application of Thermodynamic Indices to Agro-Ecosystems / chapter 12 Ecosystem Indicators for the Integrated Management of Landscape Health and Integrity / chapter 13 Multi-Scale Resilience Estimates for Health Assessment of Real Habitats in a Landscape / chapter 14 Emergy, Transformity, and Ecosystem Health / chapter 15 Mass Accounting and Mass-Based Indicators / chapter 16 The Health of Ecosystems: The Ythan Estuary Case Study / chapter 17 Assessing Marine Ecosystem Health Concepts and Indicators, with Reference to the Bay of Fundy and Gulf of Maine, Northwest Atlantic