Overview

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.

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Author:   Tobias Arnoldussen
Publisher:   Eleven International Publishing
Imprint:   Eleven International Publishing
Weight:   0.367kg
ISBN:  

9789462366398

ISBN 10:   946236639
Pages:   458
Publication Date:   31 March 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1 The air quality clash: introduction and methodology; 2 Public health claims about particulate matter in the early 1990s; 3 Dutch ecological modernisation and environmental regulation: 1972 - 2002; 4 The social construction of European air quality legislation: 1983 - 1999; 5 Dutch air quality legislation and the implementation of the Air Quality Directives 1982 - 2001; 6 The rise of the pro-health camp in the Netherlands 2001 - 2005; 7 The rise of the pro-infrastructure camp and the resolution of the clash 2006 - 2010; 8 The CAFE programme: a new air quality strategy for the European Union 2001 - 2009; 9 Conclusion: analysing the air quality clash

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Tobias Arnoldussen is a lecturer at the PPLE (Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics) College of the University of Amsterdam, an interdisciplinary honours college with an international character. In addition Tobias works as a lecturer in the Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte, now integrated in the Internationale School Voor Wijsbegeerte.

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