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M – 00531Analytical Article

Litigating Industrial Air Pollution in The Netherlands: The Impact of The European Court of Human Rights

Jaike Josephine Louise Wolfkamp

Independent Researcher, Basel, Switzerland. Email: jaikejlwolfkamp@gmail.com

Mia Swart*

College of Law, University of Sharjah, University City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; & University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Email: mswart@sharjah.ac.ae | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-1976-9287

*Corresponding author

(2025) 05 (01) Journal of Environmental Law and Policy 1-36 https://doi.org/10.33002/jelp050101

Received: 18 January 2025

Accepted: 13 March 2025

Reviewed: 24 February 2025

Published: 14 April 2025

Revised: 10 March 2025

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ABSTRACT

This article will focus on how the development of the European Human Rights Convention (ECHR) by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) prompted Dutch environmental movements and citizens to rely on the ECHR to reduce industrial air pollution. It will further examine the decisive role of human rights in legal proceedings concerning industrial air pollution between environmental movements and affected individuals and the State and/or business entities. The impact of the developing case law by the ECtHR on Dutch cases such as the Air Quality cases, the Urgenda case and the Shell cases will be considered. This article will consider the effects of changing public opinion and scientific developments to understand the changing role of the ECHR in the Netherlands.

Keywords: Industrial air pollution; European Court of Human Rights; Public Opinion; The Netherlands; Health

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