摘要：AbstractResearch shows that air pollution poses a considerable threat to human health. In the Netherlands, however, air quality issues were especially a hot topic because air quality regulations hampered the provision of new infrastructure. In this paper we focus on the dilemma between infrastructure development and air quality regulations in order to gain more insight into the general dilemma between development and environmental protection. By means of a case study into the National Collaboration Programme on Air Quality in the Netherlands we investigate to what extent a shift from government to governance, which is suggested in literature, is able to overcome this dilemma. We focus on the implications of this shift in the field of infrastructure policy. To do so, we have followed the programme for multiple years and conducted several rounds of interviews with important stakeholders on national, provincial and municipal level.
关键词：Infrastructure development;environmental protection;air quality;governance approach;government;governance;the Netherlands;National Cooperation Programme on Air Quality
