— Hazard Mitigation Activities: Creating Strategies to Reduce Vulnerability

As you can see, there can be a bit of overlap between some of the categories in the chart above. Further, some strategies may fall into more than one category, while other strategies may not t squarely into any one group. Nevertheless, while we can quibble about the details, the groupings laid out here can provide a common vocabulary to use during discussions about the wide variety of options available.