The social construction of the Dutch air quality clash : how road expansions bit the dust against particulate matter / Tobias Arnoldussen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 21, 2016).

Cover; Title page; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; TABLE OF CONTENTS; 1 The air quality clash: introduction and methodology; 1.1 The air quality clash, delineation of the period under concern; 1.2 Research question and sub questions; 1.3 Research methods and selection of research material; 1.4 A social constructivist perspective; 1.4.1 Concepts taken from actor centred social constructivism; 1.4.2 Concepts taken from the discourse analytic approach; 1.5 Ideal types of ecological modernisation and the legality of precaution; 1.5.1 Ecological modernisation

1.5.2 Ideal typical elements of ecological modernisation1.5.3 Ideal types of ecological modernisation discourse and 'limits togrowth'; 1.5.4 Ecological modernisation: its critics and its possibilities; 1.5.5 The legality of precaution and the precautionary principle; 1.5.6 Ideal types of the legality of risk and compensationand the legality of precaution; 1.6 What this book is about; 2 Public health claims about particulate matter in the early 1990s; 2.1 Particulate air pollution; 2.1.1 What kind of pollutant is Particulate Matter?; 2.1.2 Different categories of PM

2.2 The discovery of PM10 as a health threat2.2.1 Two significant studies: Harvard Six Cities and ACS; 2.3 Prospective epidemiology, possibilities and limitations; 2.3.1 Epidemiology and toxicology; 2.3.2 Possibilities and limitations of epidemiological studies; 2.3.3 Epidemiology and its critics; 2.4 Remaining uncertainties in the Harvard Six Cities and the ACSstudies; 2.4.1 Critical objections to the findings in the ACS and Harvard Six Citiesstudies; 2.4.2 Assessing the claims of early air quality research; 2.4.3 Air pollution as an indicator for low socio-economic status

2.5 Dutch epidemiological research and claims making by healthagencies2.5.1 Dutch epidemiological research; 2.5.2 Claims made by the Dutch Municipal Health Agency; 2.6 Concluding remarks; 2.6.1 Experts as claims makers; 2.6.2 Epidemiology as a precautionary science; 2.6.3 Conflicts over air quality as 'risk society conflicts'; 3 Dutch ecological modernisation and environmental regulation:1972 -- 2002; 3.1 The early days of environmental policy in the Netherlands; 3.1.1 The policy process in the Netherlands; 3.1.2 The institution of the Ministry of VOMIL

3.1.3 A programmatic and long-term approach to environmental policy3.1.4 Setting standards and providing permits; 3.1.5 The entwinement of spatial planning and environmental policy; 3.1.6 The discrepancy between idealistic rhetoric and pragmatic politics; 3.2 Embracing ecological modernisation; 3.2.1 The role of modern managers in the new VROM Ministry; 3.2.2 Accommodation and responsibilisation revisited; 3.2.3 Expansion of the integrated long-term perspective; 3.2.4 The possibility of a 'positive sum game'; 3.2.5 Dutch ecological modernisation: the coming of age; 3.2.6 Assessing the NMP

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