Books in the Sustainable World series

Contains the results of a three-year research programme by a joint team of experts from four different EU countries, whose main focus was on investigating the possibility of using abandoned underground mines for the disposal of hazardous chemical waste with negligible pollution of the environment.

Presents a view of sustainability that starts from the acknowledgment of physical conditions and limits that humans can no longer neglect. In the field of the criticism to GDP as an omni-comprehensive instrument, thia book also describes the methodology of the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW), proposed by H Daly and John Cobb in 1989.