risk mitigation
21Seismic risk — uses the results of a seismic hazard analysis, and includes both consequence and probability. A building located in a region of high seismic hazard is at lower risk if it is built to sound seismic engineering principles. On the other hand, a… …
22political risk insurance — USA One of several risk mitigation tools available to investors involved in cross border transactions, this insurance typically insures lenders and equity investors from and against losses incurred by the investors as a result of a political risk …
23Climate change mitigation — Fossil fuel related CO2 emissions compared to five of IPCC s emissions scenarios. The dips are related to global recessions. Data from IPCC SRES scenarios; …
24Social risk management — (SRM) is a new conceptual framework assigned and designed by the World Bank cite web | last = Holzmann | first = Robert | coauthors = Lynne Sherburne Benz and Emil Tesliuc | title = Social Risk Management: The World Bank Approach to Social… …
25Nepal Risk Reduction Consortium — (NRRC) was launched by the Government of Nepal (GoN) and a group of international organizations working to promote the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) in 2009. It exists to bridge the spectrum of development and… …
26Environmental mitigation — Environmental mitigation, compensatory mitigation, or mitigation banking, are terms used primarily by the Unites States government and the related environmental industry to describe projects or programs intended to offset known impacts to an… …
27Disaster risk reduction — (DRR) is a systematic approach to identifying, assessing and reducing the risks of disaster. It aims to reduce socio economic vulnerabilities to disaster as well as dealing with the environmental and other hazards that trigger them: here it has… …
28Landslide mitigation — Landslides can be triggered by many often concomitant causes. In addition to shallow erosion or reduction of shear strength caused by seasonal rainfall, causes triggered by anthropic activities such as adding excessive weight above the slope,… …
29Building Safer Communities. Risk Governance, Spatial Planning and Responses to Natural Hazards — Auteur Urbano Fra Paleo Genre Essai Éditeur IOS Press Date de parution 2009 Nombre de pages 278 ISBN 978 1 60750 046 9 Building Safer Communities …
30Flood mitigation — involves managing the effects of flooding, rather than trying to prevent it altogether. It is management of people, through measures such as evactuation and properties dry/wet proofing for example.The prevention of flooding can be studied on a… …
