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Adaptation and Mitigation

Adaptation and Mitigation. Ways to Address Climate Change. What is Mitigation?. To prevent the worsening of destruction To decrease force or intensity. To lower risk. Earthquake mitigation Build buildings to withstand shaking better Flood mitigation

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Adaptation and Mitigation

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  1. Adaptation and Mitigation Ways to Address Climate Change

  2. What is Mitigation? • To prevent the worsening of destruction • To decrease force or intensity. To lower risk. • Earthquake mitigation • Build buildings to withstand shaking better • Flood mitigation • Build dams to hold back overflowing rivers • Climate change mitigation • Reduce carbon dioxide emissions

  3. What is Adaptation? • Reacting or changing to fit the new circumstance • Coping with impacts that cannot be avoided Examples: • farmers planting different crops for different seasons • wildlife migrating to more suitable habitats as the seasons change. • Building levees against sea level rise

  4. A clever colleague once said "Mitigation helps us avoid the unmanageable, while adaptation helps us manage the unavoidable."  

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