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• Its biggest impact was that it resulted in increased poverty (a process called the urbanisation of poverty) and the proliferation of slums in the urban areas.
• Dams affect Earth at scales rivalling other major human activities, such as urbanisation and road building.
• Thus dams affect Earth at scales rivalling other major human activities, such as urbanisation and road building.
• These stations, they believe, have been seriously compromised by factors such as urbanisation, changes in land use and, in many cases, being moved from site to site.