Preventing environmental injustice: literature review of the transboundary effects of the radioactive waste repository construction, Čerkezovac

Abstract: Identifying potential indications of inequal distribution of environmental burdens and/or benefits in the case of radioactive waste repository construction at the border between Republic of Croatian and Bosnia and Hercegovina were the aim of this thesis. To answer it the question Can environmental injustice be detected and prevented before the environmental pollution and negative impacts it bring,s to the communities in the vicinity, begin? had to be answered. Two segments were analysed 1) process of location selection, both in terms of content and timeline, and 2) process of data research and its relation to the regulations it concerns. Results suggested omissions and neglect in conduction of the project such as unjustified decisions in location selection process, inconsistencies, and incompleteness of studies fundamental to legal action, incompatibility of criteria with physical attributes of the location, and a slow progress of currently conducted studies. Shown indications of environmental injustices require further research.