Community suitability of Rhone-Alpes, France
Moderately suitable confidence B · live score 78
95
best land · p90
96%
good land
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one block
How each domain holds up
Governance, safety & tenure 68
Society, freedom & health 95
Land & water 84
Climate, growing & hazards 93
Autonomy & access 82
Where it pushes back
Governance & corruptionLand cover & degradationAccessibility
Within Rhone-Alpes — 8 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Ardeche
strongest Climate, growing & hazards (96) ·
weakest Governance, safety & tenure (68)
pushes back: Governance & corruption
Highly suitable 82
Drome
strongest Climate, growing & hazards (96) ·
weakest Governance, safety & tenure (68)
pushes back: Governance & corruption
Highly suitable 81
Ain
strongest Climate, growing & hazards (97) ·
weakest Governance, safety & tenure (68)
pushes back: Governance & corruption
Moderately suitable 79
Savoie
strongest Autonomy & access (98) ·
weakest Governance, safety & tenure (68)
pushes back: Terrain & buildability
Moderately suitable 78
Isere
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Governance, safety & tenure (68)
pushes back: Governance & corruption
Moderately suitable 76
Haute-Savoie
pushes back: Governance & corruption
Moderately suitable 76
Loire
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 74
Rhone
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 72
Reading the land, criterion by criterion
Each signal names the open dataset behind it and how measured it is.
Education & schooling freedomcountry B HSLDA + UNESCO UIS
Seed & agricultural autonomycountry C UPOV membership proxy
Governance & corruptioncountry A World Bank WGI + Transparency CPI
Personal freedomcountry A Cato/Fraser Human Freedom Index
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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