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

About the Author

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.