Mitigation

Mitigation may refer to:

Environment

• Climate change mitigation, actions that limit, stop or reverse the magnitude and/or rate of long-term climate change
• Environmental mitigation in public administration; also, in particular:
  • Mitigation banking
• Disaster mitigation in emergency management; also, in particular:
  • Flood mitigation
  • Landslide mitigation
  • Hurricane mitigation
• Radon mitigation, removal of radon gas and radon-in-water from buildings

Law

• Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000, a U.S. federal legislation passed in 2000 that amended provisions of the United States Code related to disaster relief
• Mitigation (law), the principle that a party who has suffered loss has to take reasonable action to minimize the amount of the loss suffered

Other uses

• Mitigation of political risk, political risk
• Mitigation, a kind of defense against security issues in computing, as part of vulnerability management