small-scale
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With Brunon’s guidance, they began by drawing small-scale sketches, and eventually they were dipping brushes into cans of paint.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2026
Patrolling has also reduced small-scale encroachments, but infrastructure projects including multiple dams are still driving deforestation.
From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026
Although such small-scale activity won’t completely replace large rural farms, agrihoods would help cities cope with disruptions to the broader food supply chains—for instance, from mass flooding and wildfires, Merrigan says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 24, 2026
"Our study provides clear, quantitative evidence that small-scale landscape features can have large ecological consequences, directly relevant to land-use planning and environmental management," said Hisano.
From Science Daily • Jun. 22, 2026
It turns out that the German beer industry suffers from small-scale production.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
