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The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty.
Actions taken to avoid, minimize, or rectify the impact of a land management practice.
CEQ regulations (40 CFR 1508.20) define mitigation as: Avoiding an impact altogether by not taking a certain action or parts of an action; Minimizing impacts by limiting the degree or magnitude of the action and its implementation; Rectifying the impact by repairing, rehabilitating, or restoring the affected environment; Reducing the impact over time by preservation and maintenance operations during the life of the action; and, Compensating for the impact by replacing or providing substitute resources or environments.
Activities designed to reduce the impact of the epidemic (e.g., provision of school fees, food and/or clothing to children in a household affected by HIV/AIDS, strengthening of social safety nets, etc.)
Action by proper authority reducing punishment awarded at NJP or by court-martial.
Actions taken to prevent or reduce the severity of harm from a chemical release.
Alleviation, abatement or diminution of a loss.
Any action taken to reduce or permanently eliminate the long-term risk to life and property from natural hazards.
Measures taken to reduce the harmful effects of a disaster by attempting to limit the disaster's impact on human health and economic infrastructure (Landesman definition). See also hazard mitigation.
A procedure or strategy aimed at reducing or eliminating an indoor air problem, either through source control, ventilation control, exposure reduction, or air cleaning.
One or more of the following approaches to mitigate environmental impact(s) with an emphasis on attempting those measures in the sequence in which they are listed: (1) avoiding the impact altogether by not taking a certain action or parts of an action; (2) minimizing impacts by limiting the degree or magnitude of the action and its implementation; (3) rectifying the impact by repairing, rehabilitating, or restoring the impacted environment; (4) reducing or eliminating the impact over time by preservation and maintenance operations during the life of the action; and (5) compensating for the impact by replacing or providing substitute resources or environments.
facts that lessen damages or reduce criminal charges (synonymous with extenuation), but not providing justification
Term used to cover measures to protect populations or habitats from damaging activities or to reduce or remove the impact of development. Normally, compensation for loss of habitat is also required, this often takes the form of habitat creation, restoration and enhancement.
Under NEPA regulations, to moderate, reduce or alleviate the impacts of a proposed activity, including: a) avoiding the impact by not taking a certain action or parts of an action; b) minimizing impacts by limiting the degree or magnitude of the action; c) rectifying the impact by repairing, rehabilitating or restoring the affected environment; d) reducing or eliminating the impact over time by preservation and maintenance operations during the life of the action; e) compensating for the impact by replacing or providing substitute resources or environments (40 CFR 1508.20).
Action taken to prevent or reduce the harmful effects of a disaster on human health or property, involves future-oriented activities to prevent subsequent disasters or to minimize their effects [Go to source
Steps taken to reduce or reverse the impact of earlier environmental changes or damage, usually caused by human activities. For example, if logging removed a bird nesting area, mitigation activities might include planting young trees. [N-P
The reduction of damage from risk due to lessening the chance of occurrence, or by minimizing its effect when it does occur.
The elimination, reduction or control of the adverse environmental effects of a project, and includes restitution for any damage to the environment caused by such effects through replacement, restoration, compensation or other means.
A process of minimizing or compensating for damages to natural habitats, caused by human developments. These activities are designed to decrease the degree of damage to an ecosystem. They may include restoration, enhancement, or creation. According to the Clean Water Act, mitigation is a sequential process that includes avoiding impacts, then minimizing impacts, and lastly, compensating for impacts. othole or prairie pothole A term often used to describe the small, shallow ponds and marshes formed by Pleistocene glaciation in the grasslands of the northern United States and southern Canada. "Kettlehole" was the original term used. estore To return a wetland (or other natural habitat) to a close approximation of its condition prior to disturbance by modifying conditions responsible for the loss or change.
Planning of project design and/or construction to avoid or overcome adverse impacts.
actions and programs that reduce the risks and impacts associated with natural hazards
Actions and decisions that (1) avoid impacts altogether by not taking a certain action or parts of an action, (2) minimize impacts by limiting the degree or magnitude of an action, (3) rectify the impact by repairing, rehabilitating, or restoring the affected environment, (4) reduce or eliminate the impact over time by preservation and maintenance operations during the life of the action, or (5) compensate for an impact by replacing or providing substitute resources or environments.
(4) an activity aimed at avoiding, controlling or reducing the severity of adverse physical, chemical, biological and/or socioeconomic impacts of a project activity.
To moderate or compensate for an impact or effect.
The reduction of impacts caused by pollution. Mitigation can include preventing the pollution, cleaning up the pollution, or reducing the pollution. Mitigation can be accomplished through engineering solutions (such as air pollution “scrubbers” on power plants) or process solutions (such as recycling).
actions that we can take before, or at the beginning of, drought to help reduce the impacts of drought.
an activity or project to reduce the impact of a pollutant or replace lost land features such as wetlands and surface water.
Pre-planned and coordinated operator reactions to infrastructure warning and/or incidents designed to reduce or minimize impacts; support and complement emergency, investigatory, and crisis management response; and facilitate reconstitution.
measures or actions that lessen the harmful effects of disasters and hazards.
Those activities implemented prior to, during, or after an incident which are designed to reduce or eliminate risks to persons or property that lessen the actual or potential effects or consequences of an incident. Mitigation measures can include efforts to educate governments, businesses, and the general public on measures they can take to reduce loss and injury and are often informed by lessons learned from prior incidents.
_ CEQA Guidelines Definition 15370 states: "Mitigation" includes: (a) avoiding the impact altogether by not taking an action or certain parts of an action; (b) minimizing impacts by limiting the degree or magnitude of the action and its implementation; (c) rectifying the impact by repairing, rehabilitating, or restoring the impacted environment; (d) reducing or eliminating the impact over time by preservation and maintenance operations during the life of the action; and (e) compensating for the impact by replacing or providing substitute resources or environments.
Term usually used to refer to various changes or improvements made in a home; for instance, to reduce the average level of radon.
saves valuable resources and prevents suffering and hardship in future disasters by breaking the repetitive cycle of destruction and reconstruction through actions designed to reduce the long-term risk to human life and property from hazards. Mitigation involves three basic approaches: avoidance of spatially-predicted natural hazards, human activity, and the built environment (e.g., limited development in flood-prone areas); spatially-unpredictable hazards that include activities that are not vulnerable to hazards (e.g., establishment of building codes that require building or retrofitting resulting in less likely damage); and hazard-prone areas, such as urban settings, that involve development or activity to shield from a hazard (e.g., flood control structures) and limit activity and use of land.
Archaeological work to mitigate (make less damaging) the disturbance occurring to an archaeological site resource due to a project. Can take the form of excavation, documentation, oral history, historical research, and/or laboratory analysis. Can incorporate protective measures such as avoidance or capping to avoid or reduce site damage.
Actions taken to eliminate or reduce risk by reducing the probability and or impact of occurrence.
Term meaning to alleviate the adverse effects of project construction. Mitigation may take the form of data recovery (thereby obtaining the data contained in the site) or avoidance (thereby not affecting the site at all). Also referred to as Phase III.
Working to lessen risk by lowering its chances of occurring or by reducing its effect if it does occur.
The activities designed to reduce or eliminate risks to persons or property or to lessen the actual or potential effects or consequences of an incident. Mitigation measures may be implemented prior to, during, or after an incident. Mitigation measures are often informed by lessons learned from prior incidents. Mitigation involves ongoing actions to reduce exposure to, probability of, or potential loss from hazards. See Blast Mitigation, Blast Mitigation Action Group (BMAG), Blast Mitigation Products.
The activities designed to reduce or eliminate risks to persons or property or to lessen the actual or potential effects or consequences of an incident. Mitigation measures may be implemented prior to, during, or after an incident. Mitigation measures are often informed by lessons learned from prior incidents. Mitigation involves ongoing actions to reduce exposure to, probability of, or potential loss from hazards. Measures may include zoning and building codes, floodplain buyouts, and analysis of hazard- related data to determine where it is safe to build or locate temporary facilities. Mitigation can include efforts to educate governments, businesses, and the public on measures they can take to reduce loss and injury.
Structural and non-structural measures undertaken to limit the adverse impact of natural, human-generated or technological hazards.
any actions that prevent, limit, delay, or slow the rate of undesired impacts by acting on either the environmental system, the human proximate forces, or the human systems that drive environmental change.
actions taken for the purpose of reducing the negative impacts on the environment of a particular land use or activity
Elimination, reduction, or control of the adverse environmental impacts of a project. Compare compensation.
Actions taken to improve site conditions by limiting, reducing, or controlling toxicity and contamination sources.
This is the undertaking of measures to prevent or reduce to an acceptable level the environmental impact of projects. A good example of mitigation is tree planting around developments such as mineral extraction in order that they are screened from view.
Measures which can be taken to ameliorate the effects of development such that they are environmentally acceptable, particularly in the case of larger scale projects which are potentially intrusive such as mineral, landfill or infrastructure development. Mitigation may take the form of visual measures, such as bunding or planting, noise attenuation and other measures.
Activities undertaken to reduce the sources or increase the sinks of greenhouse gases.
Actions taken to replace or restore animals or plants that may have been damaged or removed by certain prior activities.
"the restoration, creation, or enhancement of wetlands to compensate for permitted wetland losses" (Lewis, 1989). Under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, wetlands may legally be destroyed, but their loss must be compensated for by the restoration, creation, or enhancement of other wetlands.
Either activities directed towards eliminating or reducing the probability of occurrence of a disaster-producing event, or reducing the effects of those events that are unavoidable.
Hazard mitigation is any sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and property from natural hazards and their effects.
The replacement of functional values lost when an ecosystem is altered. Mitigation can include replacement, restoration, and enhancement of functional values.
An anthropogenic intervention to reduce the emissions or enhance the sinks of greenhouse gases.
Process or projects replacing lost or degraded resources, such as wetlands or habitat, at another location.
The planned series of actions to be performed to lesson the chances of a risk occurring or to reduce the effect if a risk does occur.
An action to lessen the severity of impact of another action, either natural or human. Mitigation may refer to an action taken to reduce or eliminate the risk to human life and property and the negative impacts that can be caused by flooding and other natural and technological hazards. Mitigation may also refer to actions designed to lessen the adverse impacts of proposed development activities on natural and cultural resources, including wetlands and water resources.
Steps taken to reduce the impact of a construction project on an historic site. Mitigation can range from site avoidance to excavation and thorough study.
means any action taken to reduce the negative impact of an intervention.
Improving one area in order to compensate for the damaging of another.
The act of alleviating or making less severe. Generally refers to efforts to alleviate the impacts of hydropower development to the Columbia Basins salmon and steelhead runs.
An action intended to reduce the adverse impact of a specific project or development.
Actions taken to offset or prevent adverse effects on the quality of the environment. [ J K U V X Y Z
Measures taken to reduce adverse effects on the environment.
A strategy that decreases risk by lowering the probability of a risk event’s occurrence or reducing the effect of the risk should it occur.
Any process or activity designed to avoid, reduce or remedy adverse environmental impacts likely to be caused by a development project. Mitigating factors are taken into account as a benefit on balance to offset against any perceived or demonstrable harmful impact
A measure used to lessen the impact of an action on the environment.
the term used to cover measures that seek to avoid, reduce or delay global warming by reducing those emissions of atmospheric gases that are of human origin or within human control
Actions or investments needed to reduce risk, i.e. exposure to hazards by reducing preexisting vulnerability.
working to reduce risk by lowering its chances of occurring or by reducing its effect if it occurs.
Actions taken during the planning, design, construction and operation of works and undertakings to alleviate potential adverse effects on the productive capacity of fish habitats.
Prevention, elimination, reduction or control of a project’s negative environmental effects by avoiding or minimizing the effects, or by providing substitute resources as compensation.
The use of practice, procedure or technology to minimise or prevent impacts associated with proposed activities.
Action taken to alleviate potential adverse effects on wetlands and fish habitat undergoing modification. Also commonly used to mean compensation for damage done.
A human intervention to reduce or store anthropogenic emission of greenhouse gases and thereby lessen climate change.
a way in which an agency may offset negative environmental impacts of a project or make the impacts less serious
Reduction, by the employee, of the amount of damages that will ultimately result from an unlawful employment practice, i.e., obtaining new employment after a wrongful termination.
actions taken to avoid, reduce, or make-up for the effects of human-induced environmental damage.
The elimination, reduction, or control of a project's adverse environmental effects, including restitution for any damage to the environment caused by such effects through replacement, restoration, compensation, or any other means.
A means to avoid, minimize, rectify, or reduce an impact, and in some cases, to compensate for an impact.
Mitigation refers to the process involving the prevention or reduction of the probability of a disaster occurring as well as efforts to minimize the undesirable effects of unavoidable hazards.
Measures taken to reduce adverse impacts on the environment. To make less severe, as in the "mitigation" of enviromental hazards.
The sequential process of avoiding, minimizing and compensating for impacts to wetlands under a state or federal program.
To moderate (a quality or condition) in force or intensity. Mitigation involves reducing the greenhouse gas emissions from man-made or biological sources or enhancing the sinks of greenhouse gasses.
Actions taken to alleviate the negative effects of a particular project. Wetland mitigation usually takes the form of restoration, or enhancement of a previously damaged wetland or creation of a new wetland.
An action intended to break a completed or potentially complete human or other organism exposure pathway.
Activities that will avoid, reduce the severity of, or eliminate an adverse environmental impact.
The creation, restoration, or enhancement of an estuarine area to maintain the functional characteristics and processes of the estuary, such as its natural biological productivity, habitats, and species diversity, unique features and water quality (ORS 541.626).
Procedures to reduce or eliminate the disturbance caused by project development on archaeological resources.
The actions needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or increase greenhouse gas sinks.
An action designed to lessen or reduce adverse impacts; frequently used in the context of environmental assessment.
To moderate according to an accepted program of action approved by the regulating agency. Wetland Mitigation
Actions and programs created to reduce the effects of malicious attacks on complex systems.
Usually consists of restoration, enhancement, creation, preservation, or a combination thereof.
A means of compensating for impact to a regionally significant habitat using replacement, creation, or enhancement activities (for example, replanting trees that have been removed, creation of new wetlands, removal of invasive species, restoring streamside vegetation).
Building or retrofitting an existing building to resist damage caused by natural disasters like hurricane, windstorm, wildfire, floods.
Actions to avoid, minimize, reduce, eliminate, or rectify the impact of a management practice.
Actions or design features that reduce a project’s impact on environmental resources. Mitigation actions will avoid, minimize and/or compensate for adverse effects on the environment.
1.) restoring, replacing, or creating ecological habitats (usu. wetlands) in one area to compensate for loss of natural habitats in another area due to development. Syn: compensatory restoration 2.) avoiding, minimizing, or reducing ecosystem losses.
the process of finding solutions to reduce the severity of flood damage.
(See Hazard Mitigation.)
The elimination, reduction or control of the adverse environmental effects that may result from the proposed initiative under review.
(1) The actual enhancement, restoration, or creation of wetlands to compensate for permitted wetland losses in terms of area and wetlands functions and values. (2) Protection of wetlands by avoiding damage to them by altering the design or timing of development to minimize negative impacts on wetlands, or by reducing external negative impacts.
Actions taken to avoid, reduce, or compensate for the effects of environmental damage, including activities that restore, enhance, create, or replace damaged ecosystems.
A human intervention to reduce the sources or enhance the sinks of greenhouse gases. ()
techniques or requirements (eg. Conditions of development approval) aimed at reducing or neutralizing identified negative environmental, economic or social effects of a proposed activity, policy or development. Mitigation can include repair, replacement, cleanup, reconstruction or other methods to restore conditions to their previous undisturbed state.
The use of management practices to compensate for or reduce the negative impact of harvests on a forest.
Lessening the risk of an accident event sequence by acting on the source in a preventive way by reducing the likelihood of occurrence of the event, or in a protective way by reducing the magnitude of the event and/or the exposure of local persons or property.
measures intended to reduce or eliminate the impact of disasters on society and the environment. These measures reduce the physical vulnerability of existing infrastructure.
An effort to replace land or facilities either with resources that are comparable in value and function, or with monetary compensation that can be used to enhance the remaining land. The cost of mitigation should be a reasonable public expenditure in light of the severity of the impact on the Section 4(f) resource.
If one party suffers loss due to a breach of contract by the other, the innocent party must take all reasonable steps to reduce his own losses following the breach. He cannot simply let the losses mount by taking no action.
Repairing or rehabilitating a damaged ecosystem or compensating for damage by providing a substitute or replacement area.
Taking action to alleviate or offset an adverse impact or replace an appropriate resource.
activities that reduce or eliminate the probability of occurrence of a disaster and/or activities that dissipate or lessen the effects of emergencies or disasters when they actually occur. CO Survey, 1988.
An action taken to (1) minimize an impact, (2) rectify the impact, or (3) reduce or eliminate the impact of an action.
Action by an employee that will reduce the amount of damages resulting from an unlawful employment practice, i.e., obtaining new employment after a wrongful termination.
Structural (e.g. reinforcing buildings) or non-structural (e.g. training building contractors or educating the public) measures taken in advance of a disaster, which are aimed at decreasing or eliminating its impact on society and environment.
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Mitigation is the plea made to reduce a sentence because of personal, family or other mitigating circumstances. Mitigation does not remove the sentence, but is used by the defence to reduce its severity, usually because of the co-operation of the offender, the improper conduct of others, or any external influences that may have induce the offender to commit the crime.
to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious
a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances
Circumstances suggesting that a lesser sentence is appropriate.
circumstances such as illness or personal problems which have affected the student's attendance or performance in the examinations. See Mitigating circumstances during the examination period for further information on how to submit mitigation.
mitigation has two distinct meanings in law. On the one hand it is the steps which a person must take to minimize the loss which they incur for example when the other party to a contract has broken the terms of that contract. In other words, the wronged party cannot simply let a loss continue to mount up and then hold the other person responsible - they must attempt to limit the damage caused. The other main meaning is that it is the facts which are put forward, normally in a criminal case, as to why the convicted person should be given a lesser sentence than they would otherwise receive. Such a "plea in mitigation" will be considered by the judge before sentencing takes place.
Usually, a plea made after conviction for the sentence to be reduced because of certain factors relating either to the crime or the accused.
Reasons submitted on behalf of a guilty party in order to excuse or partly excuse the offence committed in an attempt to minimise the sentence
The duty upon you (the Claimant) to keep your losses to a reasonable level. For instance do not hire a Ferrari whilst your Fiat Punto is being repaired
A claimant has a duty to limit his loss or injury where reasonably possible. Thus an employee who is wrongfully dismissed must seek alternative employment and, if he finds it, the earnings from his new employment will be offset against his damages. But he is not obliged to accept an offer of employment that is unsuited to his skills or experience.
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to cause to become less harsh or hostile
the process of making less severe or less painful
to make less severe; fish planted at hatcheries to offset losses of salmon and steelhead production in areas blocked by dams.
the return an ecosystem to the way it was prior to a disturbance; the act of making a situation less severe, hostile, or harsh.
the act of making less harsh or severe.
Mitigation is the act of making less severe or intense.
A reduction, abatement, or diminution of a penalty or punishment imposed by law.
short-term relief; see abatement
alterations that are achieved before an event occurs that decrease vulnerability.106