FEMA's Mitigation Directorate is responsible for programs that take action before a disaster, in order to identify risks and reduce injuries, loss of property, and recovery time.

Mitigation includes providing regulations regarding evacuation, sanctions against those who refuse to obey the regulations ( such as mandatory evacuations ), and communication of risks to the public.

:* An Environmental Mitigation Plan is often requested by the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) if substantial environmental impacts are expected from the preferred alternative.

The U. S. Department Of Energy report Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, and Risk Management, often referred to as the Hirsch Report, proposes an urgent mitigation approach to deal with the possibility of oil production going into decline in the immediate future.

Mitigation of the urban heat island effect can be accomplished through the use of green roofs and the use of lighter-colored surfaces in urban areas, which reflect more sunlight and absorb less heat.

The first, the Minimum Wage ( Mitigation of Youth Unemployment ) Amendment Bill, which would reintroduced a separate minimum wage for 16-and 17-year-olds was drawn from the member's ballot in February, and was defeated at its first reading 117-5.

It owes its origins to the radical element of an older Anti-Slavery Society, known as the ' Agency Committee of the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions ', which had substantially achieved abolition of slavery in the British Empire.

The United Nations Committee for Disaster Mitigation designated Teide as a Decade Volcano, because of its history of destructive eruptions and its proximity to several large towns, of which the closest are Garachico, Icod de los Vinos and Puerto de la Cruz.

Within the UK guidance on development in relation to Great Crested Newts can be found within Natural England's Great Crested Newt Mitigation Guidelines which should be followed by developers.

Mitigation measures usually come in the form of fees which are used to fund much-needed environmental improvement and restoration projects.

Mitigation techniques developed for tokamaks will be directly

In May 2010 Gunung Rinjani was placed in the standby status by Center for Volcanology & Geological Hazard Mitigation, Indonesia with a recommendation that there be no activity within a radius of 4 km from the eruption at Gunung Barujari.

Mitigation measures can be structural or non-structural.

Mitigation of these lower surface stresses can be accomplished by a multi-stage post process with varied shot diameters and other surface treatments that remove the low residual stress layer.

Mitigation can be in direct competition with other rural land uses such as agriculture and residential development.

Pre-Disaster Mitigation grants are available to acquire property for conversion to open space, retrofit existing buildings, construct tornado and storm shelters, manage vegetation for erosion and fire control, and small flood control projects.

During the six days of docked operations, the joint Mir 24 and STS-86 crews transferred more than four tons of material from the SPACEHAB Double Module to Mir, including approximately of water, experiment hardware for International Space Station Risk Mitigation experiments to monitor the Mir for crew health and safety, a gyrodyne, batteries, three air pressurization units with breathing air, an attitude control computer and many other logistics items.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency agrees, noting in its Proposed Risk Mitigation Decision for Nine Rodenticides that “ without habitat modification to make areas less attractive to commensal rodents, even eradication will not prevent new populations from recolonizing the habitat .”< ref >

Miscellaneous revenues, of some $ 2. 5 million are supplied from federal and state grants, including Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality funds.

In April 2005 the Directorate of Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation raised an alert, forbidding visitors from going up the volcano.

In late October 2010 the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation, Geological Agency ( CVGHM ), ( Indonesian language — Pusat Vulkanologi & Mitigasi Bencana Geologi, Badan Geologi-PVMBG ), reported that a pattern of increasing seismicity from Merapi had begun to emerge in early September.

Mitigation efforts are attempts to prevent hazards from developing into disasters altogether or to reduce the effects of disasters.

Citing certain provision from RA 10121 giving authority and responsibilities to the local governments for implementing disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation measures, the Order aims to expand the composition of MDRRC given the current needs and challenges, thereby specifying the four committees of the council namely: Mitigation, Preparedness, Response and Rehabilitation.

Reeves played Clark as moderately assertive, often taking charge in dangerous or risky situations and unafraid to take reasonable risks.

Managing these portfolio risks is most often accomplished using asset allocation, which seeks to diversify investment risk and opportunity.

These trapping brigades in Northern California faced serious risks, and were often the first to explore relatively uncharted territory.

Firms often collude in an attempt to stabilize unstable markets, so as to reduce the risks inherent in these markets for investment and product development.

In practice the process of assessing overall risk can be difficult, and balancing resources used to mitigate between risks with a high probability of occurrence but lower loss versus a risk with high loss but lower probability of occurrence can often be mishandled.

The Trakehner is used as a " refiner " of other breeds, allowing an infusion of Thoroughbred and Arabian blood without the risks often involved in first generation outcrosses.

Conversely, slowing the scoring rate can put additional pressure on the batsmen and force them into taking extra risks, which will often lead to wickets.

According to the Association of British Insurers ( ABI ), a typical policy will exclude the following: going to a general practitioner ; going to Accident and Emergency ; drug abuse ; HIV / AIDS ; normal pregnancy ; gender reassignment ; mobility aids, such as wheelchairs ; organ transplant ; injuries arising from dangerous hobbies ( often called hazardous pursuits ); pre-existing conditions ; dental services ; outpatient drugs and dressings ; deliberately self-inflicted injuries ; infertility ; cosmetic treatment ; experimental or unproven treatment or drugs ; war risks.

As the US Air Force often risks aircraft and aircrews to attack strategic enemy communications targets, remotely disabling such targets using software and other means can provide a safer alternative.

Strong and intelligent, Coach Mitchell often knows more about James Bond Jr's activities than he lets on to his colleagues, and often risks his job by allowing James to get into danger.

Der Spiegel often produces feature-length articles on problems affecting Germany ( like demographic trends, the federal system's gridlock or the issues of its education system ) and describes optional strategies and their risks in depth.

Financial risk management is often a high priority for participants in deregulated electricity markets due to the substantial price and volume risks that the markets can exhibit.

Economists often estimate the VSL by looking at the risks that people are voluntarily willing to take and how much they must be paid for taking them.

In low-income countries, there are often high levels of pathogens from excreta, while in emerging nations, where industrial development is outpacing environmental regulation, there are increasing risks from inorganic and organic chemicals.

He is a crooked Doctor who risks the injury of players to enable the team to have a better shot at winning, often at the direction of Christina Pagniacci.

There is often the reaction that the diagnoses risks mistaking personal taste and preference for food and healthy diet for a deeper routed anxiety disorder.

These techniques often fail in the event of unplanned emergencies leading women to go to hospital for care too late, desperately ill and therefore vulnerable to the risks of anesthesia and surgery that must be used on them.

How effective these strategies are at preventing injuries is debated by experts, because when playgrounds are made from padded materials, children often take more risks.

Such companies are often seen as credit risks because their spending ratios are so unusual.

In less formal contexts the abbreviations " b / s " or " bps " are often used, though this risks confusion with " bytes per second " (" B / s ", " Bps ").

Non-penetration wreck diving is the least hazardous form of wreck diving, although divers still need to be aware of the entanglement risks presented by fishing nets and fishing lines which may be snagged to the wreck ( wrecks are often popular fishing sites ), and the underlying terrain may present greater risk of sharp edges.

Despite these risks, water-filled caves attract SCUBA divers, cavers, and speleologists due to their often unexplored nature, and present divers with a technical diving challenge.

The term Operational due diligence is often used to describe the due diligence process used by hedge fund investors, particularly where this incorporates, or focuses largely on, operational risks.