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Environmental determinants of access to shared sanitation in informal settlements: a cross-sectional study in Abidjan and Nairobi

Jérôme Chenal, Vitor Pessoa Colombo, Jürg Utzinger

Background Universal access to basic sanitation remains a global challenge, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Efforts are underway to improve access to sanitation in informal settlements, often through shared facilities. However, access to ...

2023

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

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

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

Using Logistic Regression to Predict Access to Essential Services: Electricity and Internet in Nouakchott, Mauritania

Jérôme Chenal

This study employs a logistic regression model to offer an in-depth understanding of disparities in the access to essential urban services, specifically focusing on electricity and Internet services, in Nouakchott, Mauritania. Through a comprehensive analy ...

MDPI2023

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

Two Decades of Architects' and Urban Planners' Contribution to Urban Agriculture and Health Research in Africa

Jérôme Chenal, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Akuto Akpedze Konou, Baraka Jean-Claude Munyaka

Urban agriculture (UA) is an ancient practice in Africa that meets social- and health-related needs. However, it is unclear whether architects and urban planners have incorporated the topic into their research and practices. This study aimed to assess the ...

MDPI2023

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

A Hybrid Approach for Extracting Large-Scale and Accurate Built-Up Areas Using SAR and Multispectral Data

Jérôme Chenal

This article examines the use of multisensor data fusion for land classification in three Moroccan cities. The method employs a Random Forest classification algorithm based on multispectral, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), and derived land surface temperat ...

MDPI2023

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

Jérôme Chenal, Hassan Radoine

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

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

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

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

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

Using Open-Access Data to Explore Relations between Urban Landscapes and Diarrhoeal Diseases in Côte d’Ivoire

Jérôme Chenal, Vitor Pessoa Colombo, Martí Bosch Padrós, Jürg Utzinger

Unlike water and sanitation infrastructures or socio-economic indicators, landscape features are seldomly considered as predictors of diarrhoea. In contexts of rapid urbanisation and changes in the physical environment, urban planners and public health man ...

2022

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

Decision analysis related to solar farm investments based on analysis hierarchical process and fuzzy AHP for sustainable energy production

Jérôme Chenal

Renewable solar energy is one of the most preferable clean energy sources with no environmental impacts. The Marrakech Safi region (Moroccan context), with its arid and semi-arid climate, can ensure sustainable energy production-oriented for a green econom ...

WILEY2022

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Based Methods for Smart and Sustainable Urban Planning: A Systematic Survey

Jérôme Chenal

The world's cities are facing various challenges such as rapid urbanization, poverty, climate change, pollution, sustainable and inclusive development. Building futuristic smart and sustainable cities is proving to be a response to these challenges. Recent ...

SPRINGER2022

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

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 ...

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