Governments, beware: Why it's so hard to invest in risk prevention

Governments, beware: Why it's so hard to invest in risk prevention

Governments cutting hundreds of millions of euros in pandemic funding, just a few years after a pandemic. Billions spent on compensation after a flood, rather than on prevention beforehand. Governments find it difficult to deal effectively with major, but not acute, risks. Why is this such a challenge? This was researched by Bas Heerma van Voss, who will be defending his Ph.D. thesis at Radboud University on April 13.