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Hazard Mitigation means any action taken to reduce or eliminate the long-term risk to human life and property from natural hazards.

Mitigation is the cornerstone of emergency management.

It's the ongoing effort to lessen the impact disasters have on people's lives and property through damage reduction or prevention and flood and other hazard insurance.

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