Community suitability of Guangdong Sheng, China
Moderately suitable confidence B · live score 71
84
best land · p90
91%
good land
—
one block
How each domain holds up
Society, freedom & health 86
Land & water 73
Climate, growing & hazards 85
Autonomy & access 86
Where it pushes back
Water availability & qualityGrowing conditionsLand cover & degradation
Within Guangdong Sheng — 21 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Meizhou
strongest Autonomy & access (93) ·
weakest Land & water (74)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 75
Shanwei
strongest Autonomy & access (95) ·
weakest Land & water (72)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 74
Qingyuan
strongest Climate, growing & hazards (89) ·
weakest Land & water (73)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 74
Chaozhou
strongest Autonomy & access (87) ·
weakest Land & water (75)
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 73
Jiangmen
strongest Autonomy & access (98) ·
weakest Land & water (75)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 72
Shaoguan
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 71
Zhaoqing
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 71
Huizhou
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 71
Jieyang
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 71
Heyuan
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 70
Zhanjiang
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 69
Yunfu
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 69
Maoming
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 67
Yangjiang
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 64
Guangzhou
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 62
Zhuhai
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 54
Foshan
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 53
Shenzhen
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 50
Shantou
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 48
Zhongshan
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 43
Dongguan
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 42
Reading the land, criterion by criterion
Each signal names the open dataset behind it and how measured it is.
Seed & agricultural autonomycountry C UPOV membership proxy
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
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.
Other regions in China
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