Mitigation
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Mitigation may refer to:
- mitigation of global warmingMitigation of global warmingClimate change mitigation is action to decrease the intensity of radiative forcing in order to reduce the potential effects of global warming. Mitigation is distinguished from adaptation to global warming, which involves acting to tolerate the effects of global warming...
in climate science - environmental mitigationEnvironmental mitigationEnvironmental mitigation, compensatory mitigation, or mitigation banking, are terms used primarily by the United States government and the related environmental industry to describe projects or programs intended to offset known impacts to an existing historic or natural resource such as a stream,...
in public administration; also, in particular:- Mitigation bankingMitigation bankingMitigation banking is the restoration, creation, enhancement, or preservation of a wetland, stream, or habitat conservation area which offsets expected adverse impacts to similar nearby ecosystems...
- The Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000The Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000, Public Law 106-390, also called DMA2K, is U.S. federal legislation passed in 2000 that amended provisions of the United States Code related to disaster relief...
- Mitigation banking
- disaster mitigation in emergency management; also, in particular:
- Flood mitigationFlood mitigationFlood mitigation involves managing the effects of flooding, such as redirecting flood run-off, rather than trying to prevent it altogether. It is management of people, through measures such as evacuation and dry/wet proofing properties for example....
- Landslide mitigationLandslide mitigationLandslide mitigation refers to lessen the effect of landslides by constructing various man made projects at the slopes which are vulnerable to landslides planning for landslides hazard mitigation as its phenomenon is instant. Landslides can be triggered by many often concomitant causes...
- Hurricane mitigation
- Flood mitigation
- mitigation of political risk in political science
- defense against computer insecurityComputer insecurityComputer insecurity refers to the concept that a computer system is always vulnerable to attack, and that this fact creates a constant battle between those looking to improve security, and those looking to circumvent security.-Security and systems design:...
- Mitigation (law), the opposite of aggravationAggravation (legal concept)Aggravation, in law, is "any circumstance attending the commission of a crime or tort which increases its guilt or enormity or adds to its injurious consequences, but which is above and beyond the essential constituents of the crime or tort itself."...
in law.