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    Mitigation aims to prevent adverse impacts from projects and keep impacts within acceptable levels. It involves enhancing benefits, minimizing harms, and ensuring residual impacts are acceptable. Mitigation is emphasized once impacts are understood, and recommended measures are included in EIA reports. Objectives are to implement mitigation, monitor effectiveness, and take action if unforeseen impacts occur. Mitigation follows a hierarchy of avoiding impacts, minimizing/reducing impacts, and remedying unavoidable impacts. It can involve structural changes or non-structural policy instruments.

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    Mitigation aims to prevent adverse impacts from projects and keep impacts within acceptable levels. It involves enhancing benefits, minimizing harms, and ensuring residual impacts are acceptable. Mitigation is emphasized once impacts are understood, and recommended measures are included in EIA reports. Objectives are to implement mitigation, monitor effectiveness, and take action if unforeseen impacts occur. Mitigation follows a hierarchy of avoiding impacts, minimizing/reducing impacts, and remedying unavoidable impacts. It can involve structural changes or non-structural policy instruments.

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    Mitigation aims to prevent adverse impacts from projects and keep impacts within acceptable levels. It involves enhancing benefits, minimizing harms, and ensuring residual impacts are acceptable. Mitigation is emphasized once impacts are understood, and recommended measures are included in EIA reports. Objectives are to implement mitigation, monitor effectiveness, and take action if unforeseen impacts occur. Mitigation follows a hierarchy of avoiding impacts, minimizing/reducing impacts, and remedying unavoidable impacts. It can involve structural changes or non-structural policy instruments.

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    MITIGATION

    Mitigation is a critical component of the EIA process. It aims to prevent adverse


    impacts from happening and to keep those that do occur within an acceptable level.
    The objectives of mitigation are to:
    Enhance the environmental and social benefits of a proposal.
    Minimize or remedy adverse impacts.
    Ensure that residual adverse impacts are kept within acceptable levels.
    At last, mitigation is emphasized in the EIA process once the extent of the potential
    impact of a proposal is reasonably well understood. This typically takes place following
    impact identification and prediction, and recommended measures for mitigation will be
    an important part of the EIA report. The objectives of impact management are to:
    Ensure that mitigation measures are implemented and establish systems and procedures
    for mitigation. Moreover, monitor the effectiveness of mitigation measures and finally,
    take any necessary action when unforeseen impacts occur.

    EIA stage for considering mitigation quantity


    In the EIA Report the section for mitigation measures is often located after the
    evaluation section, that is after the analysis and comparison of alternatives has been
    reported. This gives the impression that first a preferred alternative has been selected,
    then second mitigating measures have been added to the project. In particular the
    mitigation measures will add costs to the preferred alternative, in this situation the
    second alternative would have been preferable to the one chosen having both less
    impact and being less cost. EIA good practice in mitigation requires a relevant technical
    understanding of the issues and the measures that work in the circumstances. Finally, a
    crucial point to remember is that after safeguards are added to a proposition.
    The elements of mitigation are organized into a hierarchy of actions:
    1. Avoid adverse impacts as far as possible by use of preventative measures.
    2. Minimize or reduce adverse impacts to as low as practicable levels.
    3. Remedy or compensate for adverse residual impacts, which are unavoidable and
    cannot be reduced further
    Key principles for the application of mitigation.
    Give preference to avoid and prevent measures.
    Consider feasible alternatives to the proposal and identify the best practicable
    environmental option.
    Identify customised measures to minimize each of the main impacts predicted.
    Ensure they are appropriate, environmentally sound and cost-effective.
    Use a remedial measures as a last resort.
    Mitigation can be carried out by:

    Structural measures Non-structural measures

    For example as design or location For example economic incentives,


    changes, engineering modifications legal, institutional and policy
    and landscape or site treatment. instruments, provision of community
    Structural measures are well services and training and capacity
    established for certain types of building.
    projects, such as dams, roads, and oil Can be applied to reinforce or
    and gas exploration and development. supplement structural measures or to
    In some cases, industry codes of good address specific impacts. For
    practice will be available example, many community.

    A THREE-STEP PROCESS OF MITIGATION

    - Jose Naranjo
    - Pablo Marrero
    - Luis Ramn Recio
    - Raquel Carnicer

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