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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

Reviewing the application of machine learning methods to model urban form indicators in planning decision support systems : potential, issues and challenges

Jérôme Chenal, Rémi Jaligot

Modern cities dynamically face several challenges including digitalization, sustainability, resilience and economic development. Urban planners and designers must develop urban forms that address these challenges. With the integration of new communication ...

2022

L'utilisation du numérique dans le contexte des villes de l'Afrique de l'Ouest

Jérôme Chenal, Rémi Jaligot, Chiara Ciriminna, Florian Rudaz

EPFL2021

Evaluating urban greening scenarios for urban heat mitigation: a spatially explicit approach

Jérôme Chenal, Stéphane Joost, Rémi Jaligot, Martí Bosch Padrós

Urban green infrastructure, especially trees, are widely regarded as one of the most effective ways to reduce urban temperatures in heatwaves and alleviate the adverse impacts of extreme heat events on human health and well-being. Nevertheless, urban plann ...

ROYAL SOC2021

Apprendre des villes africaines

Jérôme Chenal, Rémi Jaligot, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Rim Mrani, Hassan Radoine

Le premier article d’une revue est toujours le plus difficile à écrire. Que doit-on y mettre ? Qui doit écrire ? Doit-on mettre des résultats de recherche prometteurs, une vision programmatique et stratégique de la revue qui se lance ? Doit-on citer les au ...

2020

New perspectives for spatial planning in Switzerland: the role of ecosystem services

Rémi Jaligot

Spatial planning deals with the spatial expression of human activities in an integrated way to minimize their negative impacts on the natural and land systems. Rapid land use and land cover changes are important drivers of change of the benefits people der ...

EPFL2020

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

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

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

Assessing motorcycle taxi activity in Cameroon using GPS devices

Jérôme Chenal, Rémi Jaligot, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Martí Bosch Padrós

The emergence of motorcycle taxis as a mode of urban transport in Africa can be seen as a bottom-up response to the larger problem of a demand that is not sufficiently met by public services. Transcending the debates regarding the relevance of this solutio ...

2019

National assessment of cultural ecosystem services: Participatory mapping in Switzerland

Jérôme Chenal, Stéphanie Aline Hasler, Rémi Jaligot

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

Integration of ecosystem services in regional spatial plans in Western Switzerland

Jérôme Chenal, Rémi Jaligot

The concept of ecosystem services (ES) is regarded as an increasingly important framework and tool to support spatial planning. A limited understanding of how ES knowledge is used in spatial plans constrains our ability to learn from, replicate, and convey ...

2019

Historical dynamics of ecosystem services and land management policies in Switzerland

Jérôme Chenal, Stéphanie Aline Hasler, Rémi Jaligot, 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

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

Valuing waste as resource: Mechanisms of change in developed and developing countries

Rémi Jaligot

The total municipal solid waste (MSW) generated worldwide in 2012 was approximately 1.3 billion tonnes. Were all countries to continue to generate waste at the current rate of high-income countries, total waste generation could reach 5.9 billion tonnes by ...

2018

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

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

A new approach to spatial analysis of motorcycle taxis activities: the case of Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Jérôme Chenal, Rémi Jaligot, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda

Motorcycle taxis operate in a non-regulated, uncontrolled environment, raising public health, environmental and economic issues. Consideration of such issues requires an in-depth understanding of motorcycle taxis’ organizational and operational features. U ...

2017

A spatial analysis of motorcycle taxis activities for environmental planning – the case of Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Jérôme Chenal, Rémi Jaligot, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda

We report a novel method for the spatial analysis of informal transport activities for future environmental planning. It uses a combination of spatial data gathered with GPS devices and semi-formal interviews. We show that the current configuration of the ...

2017