Community suitability of Hunan Sheng, China
Moderately suitable confidence B · live score 70
89
best land · p90
98%
good land
—
one block
How each domain holds up
Society, freedom & health 86
Land & water 81
Climate, growing & hazards 89
Autonomy & access 73
Where it pushes back
AccessibilityLand cover & degradationWater availability & quality
Within Hunan Sheng — 14 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Yueyang
strongest Autonomy & access (88) ·
weakest Land & water (83)
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 74
Hengyang
strongest Autonomy & access (97) ·
weakest Land & water (82)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 73
Shaoyang
strongest Climate, growing & hazards (91) ·
weakest Land & water (80)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 73
Changsha
strongest Autonomy & access (92) ·
weakest Land & water (80)
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 72
Xiangtan
strongest Autonomy & access (98) ·
weakest Land & water (80)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 72
Chenzhou
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 71
Huaihua
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 71
Loudi
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 71
Zhuzhou
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 70
Yiyang
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 70
Yongzhou
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 70
Changde
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 69
Zhangjiajie
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 67
Xiangxi Tujia and Miao
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 67
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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