{"product_id":"living-beyond-the-pale-environmental-justice-and-the-roma-minority-9786155225130","title":"Living Beyond the Pale: Environmental Justice and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe find Roma settlements on the outskirts of villages, separated from the majority population by roads, railways or other barriers, disconnected from water pipelines and sewage treatment. Why are some people (or groups) better off than others when it comes to the distribution of environmental benefits? In order to understand the present situation and identify ways to address the impacts of these inequalities we must understand the past and mechanisms related to the differentiated treatment. The situation and discrimination of the Roma ethnic minority in Slovakia is examined from the perspective of environmental conditions and injustice. There is no simple answer as to why there is environmental injustice. Environmental conditions in Roma settlements are just one of the indicators of failures of policies addressing the problem of poverty and social exclusion in marginalized groups, structural discrimination, and internal Roma problems. Environmental injustice is not an outcome of the \"historical determination\" of the Roma population to live in environmentally problematic places.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of abbreviations and acronyms   List of tables    List of figures     Introduction     1. Environment, poverty, and the Roma    Points of departure      Setting of the story     Article i.      2. Environmental justice and entitlements     Distribution and procedures      What can we learn from the justice struggles?      Central and eastern Europe      Entitlements: resources and control      3. The Roma of Slovakia      The past and the present      New regime and old tricks     Villages and shantytowns      Situation and trends      4. Rudoany: a tale of the old liabilities      The village and the people      The Roma in Rudoany     A story of contaminated land      Roma coping strategies     Entitlements and resources     People and the power     Roma and the environment      Environmental injustice      Article ii.     5. The Svinka river: people, water and the environment     People, housing and segregation       Hermanovce      Jarovnice      Svinia      A tale of water     Floods      Environment and coping strategies     Land, entitlements and environmental justice     6. A regional snapshot overview     Exposure to toxic and waste      Access to water and sanitation      Exposure to flood      The land: access  and entitlements      Risks and the people     7. Patterns of environmental (in)justice     Pattern 1: exposure to hazardous waste and chemicals      Pattern 2: vulnerability to floods      Pattern 3: differentiated access to potable water      Pattern 4: discriminatory waste management practice      The patterns and the impacts      8. Roma? Not in my backyard      Economic interests      Spatial distance and not in my backyard syndrome     Changes in local economy     \"beyond the pale\" construction     Symbolic, cultural, and social capital      Competition and conflicts      9. Trends and reverting the trends      Doom scenario: from competition to conflict      Optimistic scenario: from competition to cooperation      Short-term measures: the key challenge of housing      Long-term opportunities: what is environmental is also economic and social     Green employment      From entitlements  and involvement into development    Planning, struggling, and stakeholders      Living beyond the pale? Challenges and conclusions      Annex 1. Shifts in approaches     Reference    Index","brand":"Central European University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51045534269783,"sku":"9786155225130","price":104.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/living-beyond-the-pale-environmental-justice-and-the-roma-minority-9786155225130","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}