The concerns over land use/land cover (LULC) change have emerged on the global stage due to the realisation that changes occurring on the land surface also influence climate, ecosystem and its services.
With, if America's very lucky, an attendant realisation that change is hard to believe in when the only change in sight is the names of the players.
Similarly, my experience of activism has obliged me to question linear approaches to campaigning, for example, as I hesitantly embraced the realisation that change doesn't happen like that.
The Bangkok Post struck a typical tone of pride and menace in its birthday eulogy for the king in December: "The Thai people's love for his majesty is so ingrained in the national psyche that to declare otherwise is unthinkable".Within palace circles, however, there is a dawning realisation that change is coming.
After three wars since independence in 1947, the testing of nuclear bombs in 1998, a bloody conflict in Kashmir in 1999, and the massing of a million troops along the shared border in 2002, that realisation, if genuine, changes everything.In this section Who will watch the watchdogs?
An alternative, less charitable, view is that Year of Code is a takeover bid by a corporate world that has woken up to the realisation that the changes in the computing curriculum and the success of the open-source Raspberry Pi will open up massive commercial opportunities.
That realisation did not change his commitment to "the armed struggle".
The realisation of climate change and its potential impacts on coastal environments and coastal communities has prompted much activity in the realm of 'adaptation'adaptation
This invariably breeds resentment and resistance leading to slowed or unsuccessful realisation of the change.
WHEN the public mood changes, the realisation can take time to sink in.
