Sustainable development and monument conservation: planning a case study on Olympia

This paper deals with some critical issues concerning the concept of sustainable environmental and cultural-economic development. It proposes a new methodology for the evaluation of such a development. Since the concept of sustainable development has become the corner stone of environmental-ecological economics, the present study aims to present both a conceptual and operational basis for sustainable development. The analysis is illustrated by means of a case study for the ancient town of Olympia in Greece.