Community suitability of Region wallonne, Belgium
Moderately suitable confidence B · live score 77
94
best land · p90
100%
good land
—
one block
How each domain holds up
Legal & sovereignty 74
Governance, safety & tenure 77
Economy & cost 94
Society, freedom & health 93
Land & water 88
Climate, growing & hazards 92
Autonomy & access 64
Where it pushes back
AccessibilityLegal entity & land frameworkGovernance & corruption
Within Region wallonne — 5 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Luxembourg
strongest Economy & cost (94) ·
weakest Legal & sovereignty (74)
pushes back: Soil quality
Highly suitable 82
Namur
strongest Economy & cost (94) ·
weakest Legal & sovereignty (74)
pushes back: Legal entity & land framework
Moderately suitable 80
Brabant wallon
strongest Economy & cost (94) ·
weakest Autonomy & access (44)
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 73
Moderately suitable 72
Moderately suitable 71
Reading the land, criterion by criterion
Each signal names the open dataset behind it and how measured it is.
Legal entity & land frameworkcountry B OECD FDI RRI + manual
Education & schooling freedomcountry B HSLDA + UNESCO UIS
Seed & agricultural autonomycountry C UPOV membership proxy
Governance & corruptioncountry A World Bank WGI + Transparency CPI
Land tenure securitycountry A IPRI (de jure) + Prindex (de facto)
Business & economic viabilitycountry A World Bank B-READY, Heritage, Fraser
Cost of living, labour & landcountry A World Bank PPP, ILOSTAT
Monetary & capital sovereigntycountry A IMF/World Bank, Chinn-Ito
Personal freedomcountry A Cato/Fraser Human Freedom Index
Healthcare qualitycountry B WHO GHO
Disease / vector burden A Malaria Atlas + dengue Index P
Soil quality A SoilGrids (ISRIC)
Water availability & quality A WRI Aqueduct + AQUASTAT
Terrain & buildability A SRTM / NASADEM
Land cover & degradation A ESA WorldCover + Global Forest Watch
Biodiversity & alignment B Biodiversity Intactness Index
Climate & natural hazards A ThinkHazard + NASA FIRMS + USGS
Growing conditions A CHELSA / FAO GAEZ
Food & forage diversity B FAO GAEZ crop suitability + GLW
Coastal risk B Climate Central CoastalDEM
Energy potential A Global Solar Atlas + Global Wind Atlas
Natural building materials B SoilGrids clay + forest + geology
Environmental quality A SEDAC PM2.5 + VIIRS night-lights
Connectivity A Ookla + ITU (+ Starlink)
Accessibility A Malaria Atlas friction surface
Remoteness / surroundings A GPWv4 population density
Contamination legacy C Maus mining polygons + WRI power plants
Phase-1 desk screening
These are desk numbers from open data. Soil tests, water rights and the welcome of actual neighbours all wait for a visit — we'd rather say so than pretend.
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