The Social Construction of the Dutch Air Quality Clash
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The Social Construction of the Dutch Air Quality Clash

How Road Expansions Bit the Dust Against Particulate Matter

  1. 459 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Available until 10 Dec |Learn more

The Social Construction of the Dutch Air Quality Clash

How Road Expansions Bit the Dust Against Particulate Matter

About this book

From a small policy issue in the 1990s, air quality became a hotly debated public problem in Dutch law and politics in 2004. During the political and legal clash over air quality in the years 2004 - 2010, Dutch infrastructure development and road expansion grinded to all but a halt on account of exceedance of the legal standards for air pollution. Tobias Arnoldussen analyses this sudden emergence of air pollution on the Dutch political agenda by reviewing court cases, policy documents, European Environmental Law and the alarming research data on a new type of air pollution, Particulate Matter. By using social constructivism and discourse analysis as methods of socio-legal inquiry, Arnoldussen relates the emergence of the clash to innovative legal strategies of the environmental movement, the concerns of epidemiologists, ambitious European policy makers and an activist judiciary wielding its substantial political influence. On the level of law and policy the clash is considered to be the result of the increasing Europeanisation of Environmental Law, the failed ecological modernisation of mobility and the increasing role of a precautionary approach in European and Dutch law and policy. [Subject: Environmental Law, Dutch Law, European Law, Public Policy]

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  4. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  5. 1 The air quality clash: introduction and methodology
  6. 2 Public health claims about particulate matter in the early 1990s
  7. 3 Dutch ecological modernisation and environmental regulation:1972 – 2002
  8. 4 The social construction of European air quality legislation:1983 – 1999
  9. 5 Dutch air quality legislation and the implementation of the Air Quality Directives 1982 – 2001
  10. 6 The rise of the pro-health camp in the Netherlands 2001 – 2005
  11. 7 The rise of the pro-infrastructure camp and the resolution of the clash 2006 – 2010
  12. 8 The CAFE programme: a new air quality strategy for the European Union 2001 – 2009
  13. 9 Conclusion: analysing the air quality clash
  14. Samenvatting: de sociale constructie van de fijnstofstrijd in Nederl
  15. Summary: the social construction of the Dutch air quality clash
  16. Appendix 1 List of respondents interviewed
  17. Appendix 2 Cabinets and Ministers
  18. Appendix 3 Dutch Political parties (in the air quality clash)
  19. Appendix 4 European Political parties
  20. Appendix 5 List of acronyms
  21. Literature
  22. About the author
  23. Index