For the conservation of ecosystems, recognition of scaling relationships is necessary to build more spatially explicit planning and understanding of phenomenon.
That way, the general recognition of the scale of the challenge might actually turn into action.
Ironically, it was the French central government that originally asked the Red Cross to open Sangatte in 1999 in recognition of the scale of the humanitarian problem.
It is self-serving and reckless for the sex workers' lobby to argue against trafficking legislation simply because recognition of the scale of the problem undermines a central plank of their argument: that prostitution is freely chosen.
It is a project designed to force a recognition of the scale and significance of male violence against women and is the culmination of several years of work by Ingala Smith, who began a grim and time-consuming task of counting Britain's murdered women and putting their names on her own blog back in 2012.
And the breaking news is that in recognition of the scale and ambition of this scheme to set up special spaces where both science and art can be the subjects of play, the Fun Palaces project was told last week that it will now receive a substantial Arts Council Exceptional Award, possibly only the second or third ever to be awarded.
So we're not in any way saying that we're the tail that wags the dog, there's a recognition of the scale of the contribution that we can make and we're not puffed up by our own importance in that context.
The recognition of the scale of As enrichments in groundwater in West Bengal, India and Bangladesh and elsewhere has raised a serious concern in the scientific community.
This evidence, and much more that is to come (see later), must be brought to the attention of government, whose awareness and recognition of the scale and scope of the problem are needed to secure investment in State health services.
