Publications by Jean-Claude Bolay

Sustainable Development, Planning and Poverty Alleviation

In 2018, the world population is around 7.6 billion, 4.2 billion in urban settlements and 3.4 billion in rural areas. Of this total, according to UN-Habitat, 3.2 billion of urban inhabitants live in southern countries. Of them, one billion, or nearly a thi ...

2019

Intermediate Cities

Jean-Claude Bolay, Abigaïl-Laure Sarah Irène Kern

Cities are defined mainly based on spatial and demographic criteria. The criteria of intermediation helps in identifying current urban dynamics, in relation to surrounding suburban/rural areas or in national and international environments. Medium‐sized cit ...

Wiley2019

Testing Analytical Frameworks in Transdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Development

Jean-Claude Bolay, Silvia Hostettler, Gabriela Tejada Guerrero, Clémence Noëlie Marie Ranquet Bouleau, Marina Cracco

This article discusses the concept and the practice of transdisciplinary research, including how it is conceived and implemented through the cooperation of different actors involved. With transdisciplinarity gaining recognition as an approach to addressing ...

2019

Technologies for development: From innovation to social impact

Jean-Claude Bolay, Silvia Hostettler

This open access book presents 18 case studies that explore current scientific and technological efforts to address global development issues, such as poverty, from a holistic and interdisciplinary point of view, putting actual impacts at the centre of its ...

Springer International Publishing2018

Decoding urban development dynamics through actor-network methodological approach

Jean-Claude Bolay, Marija Cvetinovic

Due to growing social and physical transformations, contemporary cities reveal the profound necessity of proper scientific approaches that are adjusted to conditions of global complexity and dynamic patterns of development. Predominance of an overall marke ...

2017

Rental housing and the urban poor: understanding the growth and production of rental housing in Brazilian favelas

Jean-Claude Bolay

Rental housing is increasingly becoming the key shelter option for the poor living in and moving into cities, including those living in informal settlements. The paper revisits the production of rental housing in informal settlements within the new contour ...

2016

Prosperity and Social Inequalities: Montes Claros, How to Plan an Intermediary City in Brazil

Jean-Claude Bolay

According to international statistics, nearly 50% of the world’s urban population live nowadays in cities of less than 500,000 inhabitants. These small and medium-sized cities play a role of intermediation between rural regions, local economy and more exte ...

2016

Urban Planning in Africa: Which Alternative for Poor Cities? The Case of Koudougou in Burkina Faso

Jean-Claude Bolay

The efforts made to plan cities in emerging and developing countries are confronted to multiple issues, especially in small and middle sized cities which can be considered as poor through several criteria: socio-economic level of majority of population; lo ...

2015

What sustainable development for the cities of the South? Urban issues for a third millennium

Jean-Claude Bolay

The Millennium Development Goals – proclaimed in the year 2000 and aimed at guiding the planet’s management and its priorities for the next fifteen years – were widely based on the concept of “sustainable development”. This concept will be once again broad ...

2012

Technology and urban issues: What type of development is appropriate for cities of the South?

Jean-Claude Bolay, Abigaïl-Laure Sarah Irène Kern

This paper deals with technologies, catalysts for change, and their links to development. Indeed, particularly for developing and emerging countries, scientific and technological breakthroughs create wonderful opportunities, but they may also convey risks ...

2011

Electrification of Isolated Areas by Interconnecting Renewable Sources (ERD Project): Lessons Learned

Jean-Claude Bolay, Benjamin Michelon

Researchers from Switzerland and Morocco undertook a joint project to develop a technique for producing electrical energy from renewable primary energy sources to supply small networks of isolated consumers. Specific attention was paid to sustainable devel ...

2008

Jean-Claude Bolay

Graph Chatbot

Sustainable Development, Planning and Poverty Alleviation

Intermediate Cities

Testing Analytical Frameworks in Transdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Development

Technologies for development: From innovation to social impact

Decoding urban development dynamics through actor-network methodological approach

Rental housing and the urban poor: understanding the growth and production of rental housing in Brazilian favelas

Prosperity and Social Inequalities: Montes Claros, How to Plan an Intermediary City in Brazil

Urban Planning in Africa: Which Alternative for Poor Cities? The Case of Koudougou in Burkina Faso

What sustainable development for the cities of the South? Urban issues for a third millennium

Technology and urban issues: What type of development is appropriate for cities of the South?

Electrification of Isolated Areas by Interconnecting Renewable Sources (ERD Project): Lessons Learned

Electrification of isolated aeras by interconnecting renewable sources (ERD Research- Action project) : Lessons learned

Brain gain statt brain drain

La pauvreté urbaine : Un défi mondial

Electrification of isolated areas by interconnecting renewable sources : a sustainable approach

El miedo en la ciudad o el miedo de la ciudad ; conclusiones

Vulnerabilidad urbana en un mundo globalizado

Livelihood and Habitat

Postface – Building communities : Urban planning and security policies

Slums and Urban Development : Questions on Society and Globalisation