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Transitional Infrastructures Extending Access to Safe Water in Informal Settlements: A Cross-Sectional Study in Nairobi, Kenya

Jürg Utzinger, Jérôme Chenal, Vitor Pessoa Colombo

There is a pressing need for transitional water infrastructures in rapidly growing cities where conventional infrastructures lag behind human settlement expansion. In Kenya, sectoral innovations have addressed local socioeconomic challenges, but empirical ...

2024

Housing Informalities Between Formal Designs and Informal Reality

Jérôme Chenal, Rim Mrani

Housing informality (HI), and particularly unauthorized modifications, are a widely spread phenomenon in Morocco’s rapidly growing coastal suburb of Harhoura, Rabat. While previous research has already focused on the socio-economic aspects of informal adap ...

2025

A two-phase approach for leak detection and localization in water distribution systems using wavelet decomposition and machine learning

Jérôme Chenal

Water is a crucial resource for all forms of life, yet it is becoming increasingly scarce. A significant portion of water loss in urban and industrial areas is attributed to leaks. Addressing this issue is critical for enhancing efficiency, sustainability, ...

Elsevier BV2024

Urban Data: Sources and Targeted Applications for Urban Planning Indicators Modelling

Jérôme Chenal

Urban data strongly favored by urban digitization and web 2.0 constitute the raw material whose sources often diverge. However, as far as we know, little or no work has been done to explore the sources and targeted applications for urban planning indicator ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022

Optimizing the Sweet Potato Supply Chain in Zimbabwe Using Discrete Event Simulation: A Focus on Production, Distribution, and Market Dynamics

Jérôme Chenal, Baraka Jean-Claude Munyaka

This study leverages a Discrete Event Simulation (DES) model to optimize the sweet potato supply chain in Zimbabwe, focusing on production, distribution, and market dynamics under varying climate conditions. The integration of climate data into the simulat ...

2024

Stakeholders’ Perspectives to Support the Integration of Ecosystem Services in Spatial Planning in Switzerland

Jérôme Chenal, Rémi Jaligot

Integrating the concept of ecosystem services (ES) into spatial planning is an opportunity to make land use and management choices that maximize the delivery of multiple ES. The assessment of social demand can be useful for the identification of priority a ...

2019

Decoupling municipal solid waste generation and economic growth in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland

Jérôme Chenal, Rémi Jaligot

Switzerland is one of the largest producers of municipal solid waste (MSW) per capita. The principle of decoupling attempts to evaluate the relationship between consumption and production, and to measure the relationship between an activity and its impact ...

2018

Modelling the dynamics of urbanization for urban sustainability in West Africa

Jérôme Chenal

The West African region, one of the largest urban agglomerations in Africa has over decades experienced rapid rate of urbanization. The urbanization processes have been associated with manifold environmental and socioeconomic challenges including inefficie ...

2024

Urbanisation, planification urbaine et modèles de ville en Afrique de l'Ouest : jeux et enjeux de l'espace public

Jérôme Chenal

Background Phenomena like rapid growth, unmanageable cities, an urban space in crisis, and the disproportionate expansion of capital cities have rendered instruments traditionally associated with planned urbanism ill-suited for city planning today. Traditi ...

EPFL2009

Geospatial Tools and Remote Sensing Strategies for Timely Humanitarian Response: A Case Study on Drought Monitoring in Eswatini

Jérôme Chenal

This article explores the escalating impact of natural disasters, particularly droughts, in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), with a specific focus on Eswatini. Over the last century, approximately 63 million people in SADC countries have ...

MDPI2024

Analyzing four decades of literature on urban planning studies in Africa (1980–2020)

Jérôme Chenal, Rémi Jaligot, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Akuto Akpedze Konou

Although rapid population growth will give them a significant weight in global urbanization by the middle of the century, African cities remain little known. As a result, they are essentially outside the global intellectual arena on urban issues, which jus ...

2020

A spatially explicit approach to simulate urban heat mitigation with InVEST (v3.8.0)

Jérôme Chenal, Stéphane Joost, Martí Bosch Padrós

Mitigating urban heat islands has become an important objective for many cities experiencing heat waves. Despite notable progress, the spatial relationship between land use and/or land cover patterns and the distribution of air temperature remains poorly u ...

2021

Spatial Distributions of Diarrheal Cases in Relation to Housing Conditions in Informal Settlements: A Cross-Sectional Study in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Jérôme Chenal, Vitor Pessoa Colombo, Jürg Utzinger

In addition to individual practices and access to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) facilities, housing conditions may also be associated with the risk of diarrhea. Our study embraced a broad approach to health determinants by looking at housing depriv ...

2023

Historical dynamics of ecosystem services and land management policies in Switzerland

Jérôme Chenal, Rémi Jaligot, Stéphanie Aline Hasler, Martí Bosch Padrós

Ecosystem services (ES) are dynamic over space and time. Understanding and quantifying spatio-temporal trade-offs and synergies among multiples ES, as well identifying the drivers of change provides an opportunity to make the link between ecosystems, polic ...

2019

Spatiotemporal patterns of urbanization in three Swiss urban agglomerations: insights from landscape metrics, growth modes and fractal analysis

Jérôme Chenal, Rémi Jaligot, Martí Bosch Padrós

Context Urbanization is the most important form of landscape change and is increasingly affecting biodiversity and ecosystem functions. Understanding how landscape patterns change in space and time is central to the evaluation of the environmental impacts ...

SPRINGER2020

Impact of Topography on Rural Cycling Patterns: Case Study of Bugesera District, Rwanda

Jérôme Chenal, Baraka Jean-Claude Munyaka, Akuto Akpedze Konou, Rim Mrani

Rural mobility in Africa is an under-researched issue. Rural communities have often suffered from reduced mobility that has hampered their access to essential services and facilities such as education, health care, food, and clean water. In many rural comm ...

2023

Exploring Urban Livability Factors: A Novel Algorithm for Improved Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Jérôme Chenal

Confirmatory Factor Analysis is an advanced statistical method used to test a pre-established hypothesis about the underlying relationships among observed variables using a limited set of factors. The primary step in the complete modeling process involves ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2023

Assessing the Impact of Agricultural Practices and Urban Expansion on Drought Dynamics Using a Multi-Drought Index Application Implemented in Google Earth Engine: A Case Study of the Oum Er-Rbia Watershed, Morocco

Jérôme Chenal

Drought monitoring is a critical environmental challenge, particularly in regions where irrigated agricultural intensification and urban expansion pressure water resources. This study assesses the impact of these activities on drought dynamics in Morocco’s ...

MDPI AG2024

Digital Inclusion And Youth Participation In Urban Governance In Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case Of Saint-Louis, Senegal

Jérôme Chenal, Baraka Jean-Claude Munyaka, Pablo Txomin Harpo de Roulet

This article investigates the inuence of digital technologies on youth participation in urban governance within the Global South, with a specic focus on Saint-Louis, Senegal. Rapid urbanization in developing countries has intensied the need for inclusiv ...

AIP Publishing2025

Territorial Coherence Through Urban Planning, Myth or Reality: Analysis of Planning Instruments in Ho (Ghana) and Kpalimé (Togo)

Jérôme Chenal

Cities in West Africa have master and local plans to plan and guide land use and prevent urban sprawl. However, their spatial growth is not in line with the principles and indicators of harmonious development. To what extent has the spatial growth of these ...

2025