This blog will provide you information about Mitigation. First of all, we will discuss the Concept of Mitigation with an example. Then we will discuss the tern Environmental Mitigation along with the Mitigation Measures for Environment. Then we will discuss the main Advantages and Disadvantages of Mitigation. At the end, we will discuss the Applications of Mitigation. This blog will provide concept of environmental Mitigation, Mitigation measures, Advantages and Disadvantages and Application of Mitigation
1. Meaning of Mitigation:
“Mitigation is a verb that means to make something less painful, less severe or less serious”
Mitigation also refers to make any punishment less severe than before.
In other words it means to reduce bad impacts of any act or anything.
It also helps to enhance positive effects of some situation or something.
We can apply mitigation in every field of the world to make it better and help it to grow in a better way.
Mitigation is useful practice to apply in any field, but Environmental Sector is in need of mitigation more than any other sector because it is destroying abruptly day by day.
We will discuss Environmental Mitigation Measures, Advantages and Disadvantages of Mitigation in this blog.
Example of Mitigation:
Mitigation of flood damage means to take preventive measures to reduce the impacts of flood as possible. Etc.
2. Environmental Mitigation:
Environmental mitigation is the approach to reduce all the bad impacts of environment related problems so Mitigation practices are applied to control the harmful impact on the environment. These practices might me expensive but they end up improving the quality of life and our environment. They are slow processes but eventually they are beneficial for deteriorating environmental conditions.
We should have tolerance to wait for the results and improved changes in the environment. We should give importance to environmental mitigation otherwise we will end up to more extreme environmental conditions in future. The nations that are taking environmental mitigation seriously, are the nations that are becoming more developed day by day and their life standards are very up to date. It is difficult for developing countries to spend on environmental mitigation but it is the necessity for better future.
3. Mitigation Measures for Environment:
We will discuss Environmental Mitigation Measures, Advantages and Disadvantages of Mitigation in this blog. Following are some of the Mitigation practices for Environmental Sector:
1: Hazard Mitigation Planning:
This is a practice in which we plan about strategies by predicting and evaluating impacts of all possible environmental hazards. Environmental Hazards may be natural or artificial. Natural hazards are produced by the nature while artificial hazards are human driven hazards. Examples of Natural hazards are floods, earthquakes, tsunami etc. Examples of Man-mad hazards are Chemical accidents, Bhopal disaster, Dust Bowl etc.
2: Green Infrastructure:
Green infrastructure refers to green roofs, green building and many other eco-friendly structures for efficient resource management. Green infrastructure is adopted by many countries and the results are amazing. There is a visible and significant difference in past temperatures are the temperatures with green walls, green roofs and green buildings. If green infrastructure will be applied by many countries so it will create a significant positive impact on global warming.
3: Renewable Energy:
Renewable energy includes wind energy, solar energy or hydropower etc. The use of these energies will reduce the burning of fossil fuels and avoid the GHG emissions. Burning of Fossil fuels adds a large concentration of GHGs in the environment so if we shift to renewable energy sources, we can reduce GHG emissions on a large scale and it will help us in more power generation. Renewable energies have less or no GHG emissions and are suitable to replace Fossil Fuel burning.
4: Waste Reduction:
The act of waste reduction will cause great improvement in the environmental quality so the world is producing a huge amount of waste everyday if that waste will be reduced it will be easy to handle and pollution will be reduced. Waste reduction will help us to keep our environment clean. As we know that, landfills are the major source of Methane production globally. If there will be less wastes in the landfills, less methane will produce and our environment will be healthy and clean.
5: Pollution Control:
This practice will applied to reduce all types of pollution. This will help to enhance the beauty of environment. Pollutions include, land pollution, water pollution, air pollution etc. These pollutions contributes to most of the environmental issues that are degrading our environment at very high rates. Pollution control can act as multi-tasker. As it can reduce the pollution of all types and also eliminate many potential environmental issues on Earth in order to save the Earth.
All of these are mitigation measures for environment.
4. Advantages of Mitigation:
Following are some of the advantages of Mitigation:
● Reduced Risk:
Mitigation practices reduces the risks of potential environmental hazards where they are applied so it will reduce the risk and helps in reducing the damage if any environmental hazard occurs.
● Cost Savings:
It helps in saving the costs used for rehabilitating the damage caused by environmental hazards and disasters. If the protective measures or mitigation measures are taken before time. There will be reduction financial burden to manage the environmental hazard.
● Improved Resilience:
It helps in improved recovery and response of the society towards the bad environmental conditions so It built resilience against the environmental hazards and disaster, this helps to withstand the hazard easily.
● Environmental Benefits:
These practices will help to upgrade the environment and helps to enhance its beauty. Along with the protection against environmental hazards, it will help in maintaining the environment.
● Social Benefits:
Mitigation provide social benefits as people interact with each other in a nice way when everything around them is under control. Mitigation makes a workplace safe and secure and people working in that environment connect with each other in a nice way.
These are the advantages of Mitigation.
5. Disadvantages of Mitigation:
Following are some disadvantages pf mitigation:
● Cost:
There is a high capital cost of all types of mitigation practices. That is why they are not easy to be applied because it needs high capital cost. This cost is not refundable because it completely invests in mitigation measures.
● Time:
The mitigation practices are so much time consuming and their results are delayed for a long time and it needs tolerance to see their visible results. The results of mitigation measures are visible after a long time so patience in needed.
● Resistance:
Mitigation practices may lead the resistance of stakeholders. It is because the results are not so visual and need a huge capital cost is used. Most of the time the investor do not appreciate the mitigation measures and denies for helping in it.
● Unforeseen Consequences:
Mitigation practices may lead to some unknown consequences that can be even more dangerous than previous. These practices may lead to bigger environmental hazards than the past hazards. This can cause more damage than the problem treated.
These are the disadvantages of Mitigation
6. Application of Mitigation:
We can apply Mitigation in present day rules and regulations in the following ways:
● Addition:
It means addition of beneficial laws to existing laws that serves mitigation goals so It will be the new addition to the previous laws.
● Elimination:
It means to eliminate the laws that disturbs the mitigation practices (If necessary) so It cause the elimination of laws that are not suitable for mitigation measures.
● Substitution:
It means to change the existing laws in favor of mitigation practices. It cause slight or significant changes in existing laws for mitigation measures.
● New laws:
It means to make new laws that complement the mitigation practices so these will be completely new laws to followed and to maintain the mitigation practices in an environment.
7. Conclusion:
Mitigation practices can help you upgrade the condition of the sector under consideration. It helps to reduce harmful impacts and enhance positive impact whether it is for the environment or any other sector of life. It helps to find solutions for existing problems and also reduce their bad impacts. We should try to implement mitigation practices in the environmental sector because it is in extreme need of these practices to control negative impacts of environment. Mitigation practices are taken for granted because of their cost and time, but they should be considered as important for present day scenarios.
Implementation of Mitigation
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