Mitigation

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-017525",
  "term": "Mitigation",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Actions taken to avoid, reduce, or compensate for the effects of environmental damage. Among the broad spectrum of possible actions are those which restore, enhance, create, or replace damaged ecosystems.\n\n2. Measures taken to reduce adverse impacts on the environment.\n\n3. Measures taken to reduce adverse effects on the environment.\n\n4. An intervention to reduce the sources or enhance the sinks of greenhouse gas emissions.\n\n5. A human intervention to reduce the human impact on the climate system; it includes strategies to reduce greenhouse gas sources and emissions and enhancing greenhouse gas sinks.\n\n6. Measures taken to reduce adverse impacts on the environment. [Terms of Environment][EPA 2005b]\n\n7. Measures taken to reduce adverse impacts on the environment. Steps taken to avoid or minimize negative environmental impacts. Mitigation can include: avoiding the impact by not taking a certain action; minimizing impacts by limiting the degree or magnitude of the action; rectifying the impact by repairing or restoring the affected environment; reducing the impact by protective steps required with the action; and compensating for the impact by replacing or providing substitute resources.\n\n8. Activities designed to reduce or eliminate risks to persons or property or to lessen the actual or potential effects or consequences of a hazard. Mitigation involves ongoing actions to reduce exposure to, probability of, or potential loss from hazards. Examples include zoning and building codes, floodplain buyouts, and analysis of hazard-related data to determine where it is safe to build or locate temporary facilities. Mitigation can include efforts to educate governments, businesses and the public on measures they can take to reduce loss and injury. (adapted from NIMS)\n\n9. Specific activities, technologies, or equipment designed or deployed to capture or control substances upon loss of containment to minimize exposure of the public or the environment. [40 CFR 68.3 (CFR 2013)]\n\n10. Measures taken to reduce adverse impacts on the environment. [EPA 2005b]\n\n11. \"See definition for Mitigation. Mitigation: Measures to reduce the amount and speed of future climate change by reducing emissions of heat-trapping gases or removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.'\n\n12. Specific activities, technologies, or equipment designed or deployed to capture or control substances upon loss of containment to minimize exposure of the public or the environment. Passive mitigation means equipment, devices, or technologies that function without human, mechanical, or other energy input.\n\n13. Compensatory mitigation is required to replace the loss of wetland and aquatic resource functions in the watershed. Compensatory mitigation refers to the restoration, establishment, enhancement, or in certain circumstances preservation of wetlands, streams or other aquatic resources for the purpose of offsetting unavoidable adverse impacts.",
  "subject": "Water",
  "references": [
    "Sediment Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) Glossary; Urban Watershed Management Research Terminology",
    "RCRA Glossary of Terms; Aquatic Biodiversity Glossary; Terms of Environment; EPA 2005b",
    "Pesticides Glossary; I-BEAM Glossary of Terms",
    "State and Local Climate and Energy Program Glossary of Terms; State and Local Climate and Energy Glossary",
    "Glossary of Climate Change Terms",
    "Thesaurus of Terms Used in Microbial Risk Assessment",
    "USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Glossary",
    "DHHS Medical Surge Capacity and Capability Glossary at http://www.phe.gov/coi/Documents/MSCC",
    "40 CFR 1508.1 (CFR 2024)",
    "MRA Thesaurus",
    "EPA EV-Biological Substances-Humans-Human Activities & Behaviors",
    "40 CFR 118 (CFR 2024)",
    "Aquatic Resources Awareness Course for Real Estate Appraisers Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/mitigation/"
}