Community suitability of Zhejiang Sheng, China
Moderately suitable confidence B · live score 75
87
best land · p90
93%
good land
—
one block
How each domain holds up
Society, freedom & health 86
Land & water 76
Climate, growing & hazards 90
Autonomy & access 97
Where it pushes back
Land cover & degradationWater availability & qualityHealthcare quality
Within Zhejiang Sheng — 11 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Quzhou
strongest Climate, growing & hazards (91) ·
weakest Land & water (72)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 76
Lishui
strongest Climate, growing & hazards (94) ·
weakest Land & water (69)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 76
Jinhua
strongest Autonomy & access (98) ·
weakest Land & water (78)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 75
Hangzhou
strongest Climate, growing & hazards (90) ·
weakest Land & water (77)
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 74
Wenzhou
strongest Autonomy & access (96) ·
weakest Land & water (72)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 74
Taizhou
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 73
Shaoxing
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 71
Huzhou
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 69
Ningbo
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 66
Zhoushan
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 66
Jiaxing
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 55
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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