Mitigation may refer to:
- mitigation of global warming in climate science
- environmental mitigation in public administration; also, in particular:
- Mitigation banking
- The Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000
- disaster mitigation in emergency management; also, in particular:
- Flood mitigation
- Landslide mitigation
- Hurricane mitigation
- mitigation of political risk in political science
- defense against computer insecurity
- Mitigation (law), the opposite of aggravation in law.
Famous quotes containing the word mitigation:
“Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)