Risk Reduction 21
Risk Reduction 21 :
The consequence of adjustment policies which intensify efforts to lower the potential for loss from future environmentally extreme events. (Mileti, et al. 1981; Nigg and Mileti. 2002) Note: Such adjustment policies may refer to a broad range of guidelines, legislation and plans that help to minimize damage potential (i.e. exposure to a hazard or maximizing coping capacity of a region or community by, e.g. guaranteeing resources and preparing adequate plans for predisaster mitigation and post-disaster response measures). Risk reduction involves both policy/regulatory issues and planning practices, i.e. it is the result of risk management related response (prevention orientated mitigation, non-structural mitigation, structural mitigation, and reaction)
