Mitigation or Disaster Mitigation 4
Mitigation or Disaster Mitigation 4 : Range of policy, legislative mandates, professional practices, and social adjustments that are designed to reduce or minimize the effects of earthquakes and other natural hazards on a community. Note: Mitigation measures implemented over the last 20 years have included: (1) land-use planning and management, (2) engineering codes, standards and practices, (3) control and protection works, (4) prediction, forecasts, warning, and planning, (5) recovery, reconstruction, and planning, and (6) insurance. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
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