Ten years on we have seen and documented that it is possible to rehabilitate large scale damaged eco-systems.
"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.
Ozone-depleting substances emitted through human activities cause large-scale damage to the stratospheric ozone layer, and influence global climate.
Such a win-win-situation is infinitely more compelling than a 2C (or more) scenario with frequent floods and large-scale damage to roads, homes and shops.
Oil from the shale, however, probably cannot be economically removed without widespread strip-mining and correspondingly large-scale damage to the environment.
Engineers work to eliminate places where a single point of failure can cause large-scale damage, like the O-rings that led to the loss of the shuttle Challenger in 1986.
Disasters triggered by natural hazards such as floods, droughts or cyclones have the potential to cause large-scale damage on regional, national or even supranational scale.
As many are learning the hard way, small-scale snipers in command of new-media and social-network weapons can inflict large-scale damage to a company's reputation-and fast.
The Harvard visitors' ambitious plan was to track diseases spreading among four of the Kumbh's 14 sectors in real time, tracing them back to their sources, and hopefully stopping their spread before large-scale damage could be done.
The influx of an extra 50,000 American troops since 2009 has allowed NATO to develop a counterinsurgency strategy that improves security and focuses more on protecting the civilian population, and so avoid such large-scale damage to villages.
