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Identifying and Classifying Urban Data Sources for Machine Learning-Based Sustainable Urban Planning and Decision Support Systems Development

Jérôme Chenal

With the increase in the amount and variety of data that are constantly produced, collected, and exchanged between systems, the efficiency and accuracy of solutions/services that use data as input may suffer if an inappropriate or inaccurate technique, met ...

MDPI2022

How healthy is the built environment? Challenges and paradigms for measuring urban health

Jérôme Chenal, Rémi Jaligot, Andrea Salmi

Health evidence and health data are not widely used to shape healthier cities through urban planning. Indeed research has not produced an extensive standardised assessment able to engage the transdisciplinary nature of the relationship between population h ...

Informa UK Limited2024

Study of the Gendered Impacts of Climate Change in Bol, Lake Province, Chad

Jérôme Chenal

Climate change is a global phenomenon impacting ecosystems, economies, and livelihoods. This research carried out in Bol in the Lake Province of Chad, a region heavily affected by climate change, aims to analyze the gender-differentiated impacts of this ph ...

MDPI AG2024

Digital Tools as a Means to Foster Inclusive, Data-informed Urban Planning

Jérôme Chenal, Marc Soutter, Stéphanie Aline Hasler

Rapid urbanization, climate change, resource depletion, the desire for more sustainable development and widespread use of the Internet and mobile phones are major challenges for urban planning. While the smart city model is seen as a means to cope with the ...

2017

The Quiet Architecture of Informality: Negotiating Space Through Agency

Jérôme Chenal, Rim Mrani

Housing informality in Morocco has taken root within Rabat’s formal neighborhoods, quietly reshaping façades, extending plot lines, and redrawing the texture of entire blocks. This ongoing transformation runs up against the rigidity of official planning fr ...

MDPI AG2025

Smart PV Monitoring and Maintenance: A Vision Transformer Approach within Urban 4.0

Jérôme Chenal

The advancement to Urban 4.0 requires urban digitization and predictive maintenance of infrastructure to improve efficiency, durability, and quality of life. This study aims to integrate intelligent technologies for the predictive maintenance of photovolta ...

2024

Cultural ecosystem services provision in response to urbanization in Cameroon

Jérôme Chenal, Rémi Jaligot, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda

In Africa, cities are unable to accommodate population growth within their current administrative limits, putting pressure on ecosystem services (ES) in peripheral areas. Existing ES related studies in the region were conducted in East and South Africa, an ...

2018

Environmental and socio-economic determinants of fecal sludge emptying in Sub-Saharan Africa: A cross-sectional mixed-methods study in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Jérôme Chenal, Vitor Pessoa Colombo

This study sought to understand the determinants of household’s choices for fecal sludge (FS) emptying to help fighting against unhygienic/unsafe practices and environmental pollution. A cross-sectional mixed study used in the municipality of Yopougon (Abi ...

2024

Mapping Rural Mobility in the Global South: Case Studies of Participatory GIS Approach for Assessments of Daily Movement Needs and Practice in Nepal and Kenya

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

This paper investigates rural mobility in the Global South using a participatory GIS approach to address the lack of mobility data that hampers sustainable planning to support rural development and resilience. Limited rural mobility due to poor infrastruct ...

MDPI AG2024

Spatiotemporal dynamics and humanitarian crisis in Bol (Chad): Satellite imagery analysis

Jérôme Chenal

This study investigates the impact of protracted humanitarian crises on urban development in Bol, a city in Chad’s Lake region, with a focus on spatial transformations and planning implications. The purpose is to assess how displacement-driven urbanization ...

2025

Determinants of urban environmental quality in Morocco: The roles of energy consumption, urbanization, manufacturing, and financial development in SDG 13

Jérôme Chenal

Studies on urban environmental quality are evolving emphasizing the need for policy response concerning the enactment of environmental regulations to attain sustainable development goals (SDGs), mainly target 13. Over the years, the concerns to improve urb ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023

National assessment of cultural ecosystem services: Participatory mapping in Switzerland

Jérôme Chenal, Rémi Jaligot, Stéphanie Aline Hasler

Previous studies assessed cultural ecosystem services (CES) at the local scale but often ignored them in national assessments. This paper explores CES relationships in Switzerland using web-based participatory mapping. We identified the spatial relationshi ...

2019

Exploring the Association of Urban Agricultural Practices with Farmers’ Psychosocial Well-Being in Dar es Salaam and Greater Lomé: A Perceptual Study

Jérôme Chenal, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Akuto Akpedze Konou

African urban agriculture (UA) has garnered attention for its contributions to food security and socio-economic improvement. However, its impact on the psychological well-being of farmers has received minimal focus. This study explores the psychosocial eff ...

MDPI AG2024

Examining African contributions to global health: Reflections on knowledge circulation and innovation

Jérôme Chenal, Vitor Pessoa Colombo, Jürg Utzinger, Akuto Akpedze Konou, Julia Tischler

This article unites different disciplinary debates on ‘southern innovation’, ‘theory from the South’, and ‘decolonisation of knowledge’ in order to discuss existing understandings around the role of Africa in the production of health-related knowledge, pub ...

2022

Assessing spatial temporal patterns of ecosystem services in Switzerland

Jérôme Chenal, Rémi Jaligot, Martí Bosch Padrós

Despite the importance of understanding the historical dynamics of ecosystem services (ES), littleresearch has focused on a historical, spatially explicit, assessment of ES supply. This research is aimed at understanding the spatial patterns and potential ...

2019

State of Food and Nutritional Security of Urban Households in Grand Lome: Approach by Measuring Household Indicators

Jérôme Chenal

In West Africa, the number of people facing food crises increases each year in both rural and urban areas, due to interdependent factors. The city of Grand Lome in Togo faces an increasingly large population that must ensure access to food, which it hardly ...

MDPI AG2024

Water for all: determinants of household water access in Nouakchott, Mauritania

Jérôme Chenal

Access to water and sanitation are major issues for many West African cities, especially for low- and middle-income nations like Mauritania. This study investigates the socioeconomic, demographic, and geographical factors influencing household water access ...

2025

Bridging the Gender Gap in Climate-Resilient Sweet Potato Farming: A Case Study from Goromonzi District, Zimbabwe

Ximena Salgado Uribe, Jérôme Chenal

This study delves into the gender-specific challenges and opportunities in sweet potato farming in Goromonzi District, Zimbabwe, against the backdrop of escalating droughts. Through a blend of surveys, expert analysis, and high-resolution satellite imagery ...

MDPI2025

Effects of urbanization and international trade on economic growth, productivity, and employment: Case of selected countries in Africa

Jérôme Chenal

The rapid urbanization taking place in Africa is resulting in the emergence of large urban agglomerations. Despite the potential and typical economic benefits associated with the emergence of such agglomerations elsewhere, not much can be said of Africa's ...

2024

Understanding the Urban Middle-Class and Its Housing Characteristics-Case Study of Casablanca, Morocco

Jérôme Chenal

With the rapid urbanization occurring across African cities, the emergence of a middle class is exerting its influence on the urban form and structure. Matching their social status and drawing on global influences, the housing characteristics of this class ...

MDPI2022