Mitigation planning includes a review of ways to eliminate or reduce the impact of future emergencies. Specific hazard mitigation plans are prepared following a federally-declared disaster. They reflect the current risk analysis and mitigation priorities specific to the declared disaster. An alternate and more common term for mitigation is prevention. In the field of emergency services, however, the term prevention is used to refer to stopping an event from happening. Emergency managers point out that while it is possible to prevent terrorist attacks, it is not possible to prevent earthquakes. It is, however, possible to reduce or mitigate their impact. Despite years of using the term mitigation for reducing harm, the federal government has recently adopted the term prevention to refer to mitigation activities. (Little Hoover Commission, Safeguarding the Golden State, 2006, 6)