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Mitigation

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Addressing issues of negative impacts; Alleviation of consequences; Countering a stream; Decrease negative development; In response to something; Limiting impacts; Reduction of impact; Remediation of disastrous evolution; Restricting impulses and actions

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“Mitigation” is a word often connected to a negative frame of features, issues, or impacts such as having disastrous consequences if actors do not change their behaviors. Especially, “mitigation” as a term is used in connection to the “climate changes,” “financial crises,” “environmental crises,” and “disasters” in general. For example, “mitigation of the climate changes” announces scenarios and possible policy solutions to governments to implement actions in legislation for businesses to reduce emissions to the air from production, procurement (indirect production in the supply chain), and transportation. Under the umbrella of “mitigation of environmental crisis” we find issues as:

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  1. Copenhagen Business School, Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Center for Corporate Social Responsibility, Porcelænshaven 18A, 2000, Frederiksberg, Denmark

    Dr. Linne Marie Lauesen

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  1. London Metropolitan Business School, London Metropolitan University, Moorgate, London, UK

    Samuel O. Idowu

  2. Loyala University New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA

    Nicholas Capaldi

  3. International Labor Organization, International Training Center, Viale Maestri del Lavoro, Turin, Italy

    Liangrong Zu

  4. Indian Institute of Plantation Management, Bangalore, India

    Ananda Das Gupta

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Lauesen, L.M. (2013). Mitigation. In: Idowu, S.O., Capaldi, N., Zu, L., Gupta, A.D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28036-8_329

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