What's better: Environmental mitigation or Adaptation? Well mitigation consists of prevention/control, compensatory measures, and remediation. What's key to mitigation is environmental monitoring, which gives an indication of whether the mitigation strategies listed above are working.
First, let's talk prevention and control. This is more of like the design of a conservation project that has favorable location (won't harm or disrupt the environment) while also specifying the operation of said practices. So a wetland for instance is a great example for prevention and control. Instead of filling yet another one for construction purposes of any type, the location of the project can be changed. Wetlands are vital to nutrient cycling, cleaning an ecosystem, and even for proper flowing of water bodies. Why are most of them filled? Great question. We always just assume that we didn't have such advanced knowledge "back then."
Second, there's compensatory measures. This course of action is used to offset adverse impacts in one area with improvements to another. It's related to preservation of species--plots of land dedicated to conservation of biodiversity and sustainability, similar to a animal reservation.
And last, there's remediation. This involves restoring the environment after the damage has already been done. So you can guess that planting trees where they were once plowed down is one example. Also, introducing crop rotation to agricultural fields can same time, money, and provide stable nutrient cycling, resulting in natural fertilizer.
Environment mitigation is simply the implementation of measures to reduce undesirable effects of a proposed action on the environment. So all the construction and wants and needs to change the environment for economic stability always has some sort of costs on our surrounding ecosystems.
Now let's get to environmental adaptation~
First, let's talk prevention and control. This is more of like the design of a conservation project that has favorable location (won't harm or disrupt the environment) while also specifying the operation of said practices. So a wetland for instance is a great example for prevention and control. Instead of filling yet another one for construction purposes of any type, the location of the project can be changed. Wetlands are vital to nutrient cycling, cleaning an ecosystem, and even for proper flowing of water bodies. Why are most of them filled? Great question. We always just assume that we didn't have such advanced knowledge "back then."
Second, there's compensatory measures. This course of action is used to offset adverse impacts in one area with improvements to another. It's related to preservation of species--plots of land dedicated to conservation of biodiversity and sustainability, similar to a animal reservation.
And last, there's remediation. This involves restoring the environment after the damage has already been done. So you can guess that planting trees where they were once plowed down is one example. Also, introducing crop rotation to agricultural fields can same time, money, and provide stable nutrient cycling, resulting in natural fertilizer.
Environment mitigation is simply the implementation of measures to reduce undesirable effects of a proposed action on the environment. So all the construction and wants and needs to change the environment for economic stability always has some sort of costs on our surrounding ecosystems.
Now let's get to environmental adaptation~
A touching video on Pakistani adaptation to climate change.
Key word: flooding.
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