Community suitability of Sichuan Sheng, China
Marginally suitable confidence B · live score 51
91
best land · p90
97%
good land
—
one block
How each domain holds up
Society, freedom & health 86
Land & water 85
Climate, growing & hazards 82
Autonomy & access 16
Where it pushes back
AccessibilityFood & forage diversityGrowing conditions
Within Sichuan Sheng — 20 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Chengdu
strongest Autonomy & access (91) ·
weakest Land & water (86)
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 73
Guang'an
strongest Land & water (90) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (86)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 72
Zigong
strongest Land & water (92) ·
weakest Autonomy & access (82)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 71
Ziyang
strongest Land & water (92) ·
weakest Autonomy & access (78)
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 71
Moderately suitable 70
Suining
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 70
Yibin
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 70
Luzhou
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 69
Guangyuan
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 67
Nanchong
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 67
Meishan
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 67
Dazhou
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 66
Panzhihua
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 57
Ya'an
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 57
Liangshan Yi
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 56
Leshan
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 55
Bazhong
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 55
Mianyang
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 53
Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 48
Garzê Tibetan
pushes back: Accessibility
Currently not suitable 26
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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