### condition:

Urbanisation
* brings changes in consumption patterns and urban consumers' location.
* complex process of change affecting both people and places.
* creates the conditions for music to thrive, cultures to mix and hybrids to flower.
* has serious consequences for the availability and use of fresh water resources.
* is the increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities.
* is the main process driving the creation and development of cities
  - creation and ongoing remaking of cities
* leads to greater demand for commercial fuels.
* particular challenge of the land environment.
* runs in parallel with economic growth.

### condition:

Urbanization
* Most urbanization affects birds
  - meadow birds
  - causes deforestation
* Most urbanization changes daily life
  - creates habitats
  - destroys habitats
* Most urbanization increases environmental pollution
* also affects the demand for ecosystem services
  - has an effect on slope stability
  - impacts epidemiology and disease profiles
  - increases the variety and amount of pollutants transported to receiving waters
  - means more private home ownership
* appears to be correlated with an increase in asthma.
* can also reduce summer low flows as less water is stored in the surrounding soil
  - be important as well, particularly with respect to urban floods
  - change the hydrologic character of streams in many ways
  - therefore lead to a higher incidence of flash floods
* cans have effects.
* changes a watershed's response to precipitation
* characteristic feature of societies undergoing industrialization.
* concentrates large numbers of people particularly vulnerable to infection.
* creates a patchwork of land uses resulting in an extremely heterogeneous landscape
  - impervious surfaces within a watershed
  - industrial and residential run-off, contaminating water supplies
  - the link between nature, habitat and human kind
* dominant socio-spatial force in developing countries like India.
* dynamic process that results in changes at the landscape level.
* exacerbates the frequency and severity of hazards such as flooding.
* global phenomenon.
* has effects.
* has profound implications for individuals' livelihood, way of life and values
  - the livelihood, way of life and values of individuals
  - several different, often opposing, effects on environmental sustainability
  - significant implications for the food system
* improves health and education but destroys culture and history.
  - storm-water runoff resulting in destruction of aquatic habitat
  - water use dramatically
* increasingly isolates the human population from native ecosystems.
* is an important factor in the demographic transition to lower fertility rates
  - to consider when assessing the intensity of floods in Arizona
  - another heat causing pollution source
  - approached as an independent variable in American history
  - appropriating cropland nearly everywhere cities are growing
  - considered a major indicator of modernization
  - important in the United States
  - one of the major environmental changes that people are causing on a global scale
* is one of the most significant issues facing Asia and the Pacific
  - social challenges facing our world today
  - perhaps the most permanent of all habitat modifications
  - seen to de-emphasize the role of the natural environment
  - social processes
* is the advent of edge species
  - future of mankind
  - slaughter house of African languages
* key component in environmental issues.
* latter for civilization.
* leads to paved roads, more buildings and less open space.
* major force in global food demand.
* means people moving from rural areas to live in town and cities.
* permanent land use application.
* positive force in development.
* separates people from direct contact with the natural world.
* tends to increase flooding.