9th Class Social Science Introduction to Disaster Risk Management Question Bank Short Answer Type Questions - Introduction to Disaster Risk Management-Understanding Disaster Mitigation

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    What does mitigation involve? Give three examples of non-structural Mitigation.

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    Mitigation involves land use planning, preventing habitation in risk zones, disaster resistant buildings, I finding ways to reduce risk even before the disaster strikes and community awareness. Examples of non-structural mitigation: (a) Legal framework: Building codes for built structures to withstand impact of disasters. (b) Land-use planning: To control human activities in hazard prone areas and re-location of communities to safer locations. (c) Incentives and financial framework: Providing awareness and know-how to those officials, people. engineer, masons etc., who are involved in construction and disaster management work.


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