In a period of campaign-style implementation, however, policies are implemented at whatever cost and on a large scale, damaging the legitimacy of policies, blocking the channel for legal solutions, incurring large-scale eruption of problems, eliminating the buffer period for coordination, and exerting tremendous pressure on the grassroots society (Fig. 1).
Ten years on we have seen and documented that it is possible to rehabilitate large scale damaged eco-systems.
It makes this theory more relevant in this situation, if the speed and irreversible large scale damage inflicted on the cultural and ecological wellbeing are taken into consideration.
Visual methods of pavement assessment, either manual or automatic, are the most common approaches to detecting and classifying surface defects as well as identifying large scale damage from natural or human disasters.
The increased salinity of the river water has forced several industries to close down which has affected domestic water supply and resulted in the large scale damage of trees of the natural mangrove forest in the south-western part of Bangladesh (Swain 1996); Tiwary 2006.
Because of this, large scale damage to crops and pasturage may have severe macro-economic consequences.
However, as joints were not osteoarthritic, large scale damage was not evident.
There was, however, large scale damage to buildings and infrastructure (water, sewerage, electricity, and roads) throughout the city.
Some 10,000 schools and 450 rural health centres were damaged by the floods and large scale damage was done to infrastructure, making distribution of supplies and reaching mobile populations a highly complex, costly and time-consuming operation.
"It doesn't have large-scale damage, but if you accumulate the different damaged parts, it is very serious," said the society's vice-chairman, Dong Yaohui.
For large-scale damage from climate change is no longer a disaster waiting to happen.
