In order to reduce the harmful effects of transport on European citizens, EU has rules that strictly limit the amount of dust in the air and that regulation prohibits further urban development in places where dust levels are too high. In order to ensure European harmonisation, the EU does not allow member states to prescribe dust busters in new cars, also listening to esspecially German car lobby.

This weblog lists conflicts between various public values as they occur in the news. Every post describes

• a short description of the event,
• date or timeframe of occurence
• event
  
• the conflicting public values
  
• Affordability
  
• Accessability
• Availability
• Quality
• Continuity
• Innovativity
• Safety
• ...
  
• the relevant characteristics of the values
  
• transparent - obscured
• discreet - continuous
• dynamic - static
• ...
  
• the relevant scales (and how they influence eachother)
  
• time,
  
• geographical,
  
• administrative,
  
• from strategic to operational
• ...
• the relevant actors (and who respresents what values)
• the relevant securing mechanisms
• the relevant charateristics of the trade-off being made
• transparent - obscured
• discreet - continuous
• dynamic - static
• scale(s)