It is a global, multi-disciplinary approach to dealing with the challenges brought about by natural disasters, mitigating their impacts, and improving related policy-making mechanisms.
Recent influenza outbreaks around the world have generated renewed interest in the study of the spread and properties of pandemic diseases with a view to mitigating their impacts [ 1– 6].
Landslide susceptibility mapping (LSM) is considered to be an effective tool for understanding these natural hazards and predicting potential landslide hazard areas (Feizizadeh and Blaschke, 2013a), thereby mitigating their impacts.
Moreover, scheduling the convention late in the summer and back-to-back should mitigate their impact.
From child care to clean water projects, companies looking to mitigate their impact on working families and their children can learn some lessons from Timberland.
It wants to make it mandatory for companies to report on their environmental and social impacts, and to introduce a legal duty on directors to take 'reasonable steps' to mitigate their impact on the environment.
Businesses too have a responsibility to respect human rights, wherever they operate, to exercise due diligence to assess, prevent and mitigate their impact on human rights and the environment, and to provide an accessible remedy if abuses occur.
It was hailed as recognition of the fact that, yes, tourism can be environmentally damaging, but that something can be done to mitigate their impact and allow tourism to continue in a sustainable manner.
The people who hold these jobs, often known as emergency managers, work on many levels with public agencies, volunteer organizations and businesses to plan for disasters and mitigate their impact.
