Economies of scale tend to favour uniform approaches in large scale centralised schemes for the restoration of degraded lands.

The empire had a centralised, bureaucratic administration under the Emperor and a large professional army and civil services, inspiring similar developments in later empires.

Centralised approaches to protected areas should target sites of national importance and any local opportunity costs of such areas should be compensated in an adequate way.

1.177 Centralised on line loan management information system will have been developed to international standards and customised to meet the different product methodologies, and financial and operational reporting requirements of the programme.