Urbanization and modernization destroy natural resources — accelerates soil and water loss

4.1 Negative impact of socioeconomic on soil erosion Economic and social development has caused a sharp increase in people's demand for the development and utilization of natural resources, which has exacerbated the occurrence of soil and water loss. Socio-economic development factors are one of the important driving forces affecting soil and water loss. With the economic and social development, the population is growing too fast, the modernization process and the level of urbanization are constantly accelerating, which has led to a sharp increase in the demand for natural resources such as agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and construction of infrastructure. People even for short-term benefits Destroying natural resources and the environment, causing a large number of new soil erosion. Soil and water loss is affected by five types of factors, including demographic, economic, technical, policy and institutional factors, and cultural factors. The proportion of slope farmland, population density, and forest land coverage are the three major socioeconomic factors that affect soil and water loss[4]; Some scholars have also found through research on autocorrelation that soil and water loss has agglomeration in spatial distribution, and the spatial variation of soil and water loss intensity on a small scale is mainly affected by random factors such as human activities[5], but not at the mesoscale. For example, studies have found that the distribution of soil and water loss areas and the distribution of the poor are geographically coupled. Poverty is often associated with excessively rapid population growth, low educational level of the population, and economic development which cause Man-made soil erosion. Weak awareness of soil and water conservation in the society, and insufficient funding due to poverty, which hinders the development of soil and water conservation[2].