The Centre for Disaster Mitigation and Management at VIT University on Academia.edu
The Centre for Disaster Mitigation and Management (CDMM) at Anna University was born of a major initiative on the part of the University in response to the call of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR). An International Conference on Disaster and Mitigation (INCODIM) was hosted during 19th to 22nd January 1996. About 300 delegates from 38 National and International agencies gathered to discuss as many as 126 papers on disasters due to Floods, Cyclones, Landslides, Forest fires, Droughts, Earthquakes, Cloud bursts, Mining and Environmental Degradation.