Publications by Jérôme Chenal

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The Habitat Research Center International PhD Seminar Learning from the South explores how various global urban and cultural landscapes address socio-ecological transitions. By South, this seminar refers to diverse regions historically impacted by colonial legacies and uneven economic development, such as South America, Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean, recognizing the term’s contested nature and complexity. The transnational and interdisciplinary character of the seminar encourages parti

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 ...

Switzerland is currently involved in a dynamic process of territorial change at a local level. This movement is anti- cyclical to the situation in most of the Western European countries, which carried out a policy of territorial reforms during the 1970’s. For several years, different cantons have been fine-tuning a policy for the fusion of communes, first Fribourg, and then Thurgau, Ticino, Valais, Lucerne and other cantons. Glaris made the strongest step, since the Landsgemeinde of 2006 decided to reduce t

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

La métropolisation de Casablanca implique la mise en place de stratégies nouvelles qui passent par l’émergence de mégaprojets. Les nouveaux acteurs impliqués dans ce type de projets visant à augmenter l’attractivité de la ville sont multiples et appartiennent à des sphères d’influences variées. Ce nouveau management urbain est régi par des logiques de rentabilités qui s’inscrivent plus largement dans la politique de libéralisation économique menée par l'Etat central. Ces stratégies urbaines dont les influen

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 ...

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 ...

Digital Twin (DT) technology has emerged as a transformative tool in urban flood risk management (UFRM), enabling real-time data integration, predictive modeling, and decision support. This systematic review synthesizes existing literature to evaluate the scientific impact, technological advancements, and practical applications of DTs in UFRM. Using the PRISMA 2020 framework, we retrieved 1085 records (Scopus = 85; Web of Science = 1000), merged and deduplicated them using DOI and fuzzy-matched titles, scre

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 ...

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 ...

Linkage between the urbanisation process, urban models, social practices, mutations of the public space, and management and planning approaches of cities in the South was studied. Critical understanding of traditional urban instruments and ways to create innovative tools for sustainable cities were sought

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 ...

Access to safe and reliable water is a major challenge for African cities facing rapid urbanization, climate change, and socioeconomic transformation. In Morocco, water scarcity threatens urban resilience and development. However, a gap remains in forecasting household water demand under such evolving conditions. This study develops a data-driven framework to anticipate domestic consumption in Ben Guerir up to 2030. By combining advanced statistical and machine learning techniques, we identify household siz

This paper investigates rural mobility in the Global South using a participatory GIS approach to address the lack of mobility data. Limited rural mobility due to poor infrastructure and financial constraints hinders social and economic activities, impeding development. The study aims to explore the socio-economic impacts of limited mobility, identify software needs for data-scarce environments, and map daily mobility patterns. Fieldwork was conducted in Kenya (2022) and Nepal (2023), collecting geographic d

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 ...

Dans le cadre de la démarche participative « Centre et Rives » lancée par la Ville de Neuchâtel par l’intermédiaire de la Direction de l’Urbanisme en mars 2014, une consultation a été proposée pour l’aménagement du secteur Port-Piaget à travers une série de quatre ateliers participatifs ouverts au grand public. Le présent rapport consigne les résultats de cette consultation.

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Learning from the South: Cultural Landscapes and Transnational Dialogues on Urbanization in Transition

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

Fusion and confusion

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

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

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

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

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

La Marina de Casablanca : entre local et global

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

The Quiet Architecture of Informality: Negotiating Space Through Agency

Digital Twin Technology for Urban Flood Risk Management: A Systematic Review of Remote Sensing Applications and Early Warning Systems

Cultural ecosystem services provision in response to urbanization in Cameroon

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

Urbanisation, City Design and tue Urban Model in West Africa

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

Forecasting urban water demand in Ben Guerir Morocco using statistical and machine learning methods

Mapping Rural Mobility in the Global South: A Participatory GIS Approach for Assessments of Daily Movement Needs and Practice

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

Démarche participative "Centre et Rives" en Ville de Neuchâtel, résultats des ateliers Port-Piaget.