The ever-continuing underestimation of the general public

Ira Helsloot

Journal of Risk Research, 2024, vol. 27, issue 5-6, 698-699

Abstract: Within politics and science there still seems to be a tendency to consider risk communication successful if and only if the general public believes the risk to be negligible. Using that mental frame, risk management is doomed in a country such as The Netherlands because only zero risk will be acceptable for everybody.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2024.2360933

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