Mitigation Goals
Mitigation Goals : (1) Save lives and reduce injury. (2) Avoid, minimize or reduce damage to property including but not limited to critical facilities, infrastructure and those properties known to receive or experience repetitive damages. (3) Reduce exposure to risk, while protecting or restoring natural processes to the maximum extent possible. (4) Consider the wise uses of land in known or identified hazard areas. (5) Encourage the development and implementation of long-term, cost-effective and environmentally sound mitigation projects. (6) Promote hazard mitigation awareness and education throughout the County. (7) Improve community emergency management capability (i.e., prepare, respond, recover, mitigate). (8) Maintain economic viability after a hazard event. (Tetra Tech EM, Suffolk, 2007, p. ES-4)
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