Community suitability of Hubei Sheng, China
Moderately suitable confidence B · live score 69
91
best land · p90
96%
good land
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one block
How each domain holds up
Society, freedom & health 86
Land & water 87
Climate, growing & hazards 89
Autonomy & access 63
Where it pushes back
AccessibilityLand cover & degradationFood & forage diversity
Within Hubei Sheng — 13 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Xianning
strongest Autonomy & access (89) ·
weakest Land & water (81)
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 75
Huangshi
strongest Autonomy & access (96) ·
weakest Land & water (82)
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 74
Xiangfan
strongest Land & water (90) ·
weakest Autonomy & access (78)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 74
Jingmen
strongest Land & water (93) ·
weakest Autonomy & access (80)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 74
Xiaogan
strongest Autonomy & access (95) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (84)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 74
Jingzhou
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 73
Shennongjia
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 73
Huanggang
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 72
Shiyan
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 69
Wuhan
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 67
Yichang
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 67
Ezhou
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 67
Enshi Tujia and Miao
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 54
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.
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