Jérôme Chenal
Biographic Data
| ID | 4145632 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jérôme Chenal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jérôme |
| FAMILY NAME | Chenal |
| SIGNATURE | CHENAL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8109-8358 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Investigating urbanization dynamics and road infrastructure development in the African context
Institutional pathways to climate-resilient agriculture
Climate change continues to undermine agricultural productivity and livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa, where smallholder, rain-fed systems predominate. Kenya and Zimbabwe, representing contrasting decentralized and centralized adaptation systems, provide insights into how institutional design shapes agricultural resilience. This study conducts a comparative institutional analysis of climate change adaptation across four dimensions: land tenure, g…
Comparative modeling of household electricity consumption in France
Electricity consumption in Europe has risen significantly in recent years, with households being the largest consumers of final electricity. Managing and reducing residential power consumption is critical for achieving efficient and sustainable energy management, conserving financial resources, and mitigating environmental effects. Many studies have used statistical models such as linear, multinomial, ridge, polynomial, and LASSO regression to ex…
Evaluation of urban planning practices in Bol City, Lake Province (Chad)
Urban planning is critical to managing rapid urban growth, particularly in African regions experiencing high urbanization rates. This study focuses on Bol, Lake Chad Province, a city facing significant challenges due to inadequate planning frameworks compounded by recurrent humanitarian and climate crises. It fills an empirical gap by analyzing how local planning mechanisms respond to these socio-environmental complexities, with a focus on the in…
The digital policies in the face of access and usage inequalities among young people in intermediate cities in Senegal
This contribution questions young people’s access to digital networks at the scale of intermediate cities in Saint-Louis. Thus, it analyzes the prescriptions of digital actors responsible for the development of digital economy in relation with the orientations of the Senegal Digital 2025 strategy. This is a pretex to highlight the gaps between official political discourses and the level of deployment of digital infrastructures. The study highligh…
Trends, Methods, Drivers, and Impacts of Housing Informalities (HI)
This paper systematically reviews scientific papers to understand the primary forms of HI, why they arise, and how they affect the urban landscape. It addresses the question, “What are the key trends, drivers, and impacts of Housing Informality (HI), and what methods researchers use to study the latter?”. Previous research addressed the trends, drivers, impacts, and methods individually, failing to adopt a holistic perspective that could clarify …
AI for Motorized Travel Time Index Prediction
Smart city initiatives highlight the vital role of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), which remain underexplored with limited AI-driven solutions integration in real-time urban traffic management across African cities. ITS is crucial to enhance urban mobility efficiency and sustainability to address growing mobility challenges in the era of swift African urbanization. This paper proposes an AI-driven predictive model for the Travel Time In…
Rethinking mixed land use measurement and its driving mechanisms
The Era of African Territories
Aspirations for Ownership and Differentiation of Residential Strategies in the Urban Peripheries of Sub-Saharan Africa
Earthquake risks assessment and urban vulnerability
This study introduces an innovative approach to assessing seismic risks and urban vulnerabilities in Nador, a coastal city in northeastern Morocco at the convergence of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates. By integrating advanced spatial datasets, including Landsat 8–9 OLI imagery, Digital Elevation Models (DEM), and seismic intensity metrics, the research develops a robust urban vulnerability index model. This model incorporates urban land …
Urban Growth and Land Artificialization in Secondary African Cities
While many studies have used Earth observations to quantify urbanization in Africa, there is still a lack of empirical evidence on the role of secondary cities in the fastest urbanizing region in the world. Moreover, the diversity of urbanization processes in Africa, which can be more or less compact in terms of land consumption, remains insufficiently acknowledged and under-documented. This empirical study employed mixed methods to address these…
Two Decades of Architects’ and Urban Planners’ Contribution to Urban Agriculture and Health Research in Africa
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 scientific contributions of these fields to UA and their relevance compared to other disciplines. The research objectives were to evaluate the trends in the subject, architects’ and planners’ in…
Impact of Topography on Rural Cycling Patterns
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 communities, a more affordable mobility option, such as non-motorized mobility (cycling and walking), is the preferred way for people to travel. Apart from its well-known advantages, little is known…
Spatial Distributions of Diarrheal Cases in Relation to Housing Conditions in Informal Settlements
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 deprivation characteristics as exposures of interest and confronting the latter's spatial distribution to that of diarrheal cases. We tested the hypothesis that the risk of diarrhea in informal settle…
Examining African contributions to global health
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, public health policy, and medical innovation. Arguing that high-income countries have much to learn from the global South when it comes to health-related knowledge and practices, we propose an inte…
Using Open-Access Data to Explore Relations between Urban Landscapes and Diarrhoeal Diseases in Côte d’Ivoire
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 managers could benefit from a deeper understanding of the relationship between landscape patterns and health outcomes. We conducted an ecological analysis based on a large ensemble of open-access d…
Understanding the Urban Middle-Class and Its Housing Characteristics—Case Study of Casablanca, Morocco
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 are distinctive in spatial organization, material choice, and location, among others. Understanding these emerging typologies is critical for urban housing policy to be responsive to the needs …
Analyzing four decades of literature on urban planning studies in Africa (1980–2020)
African cities remain little known. As a result, they are outside the global intellectual arena on urban issues, which justifies the need for more productive research. This article aims to empirically analyze the evolution of urban planning studies in Africa, by identifying the trends that characterize scientific production, through a systematic literature review over the last four decades. The study is organized around four different analysis: t…
Addressing Urban Sprawl from the Complexity Sciences
Urban sprawl is nowadays a pervasive topic that is subject of a contentious debate among planners and researchers, who still fail to reach consensual solutions. This paper reviews controversies of the sprawl debate and argues that they owe to a failure of the employed methods to appraise its complexity, especially the notion that urban form emerges from multiple overlapping interactions between households, firms and governmental bodies. To addres…
Assessing motorcycle taxi activity in Cameroon using GPS devices
National assessment of cultural ecosystem services
Cultural ecosystem services provision in response to urbanization in Cameroon
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Cultural ecosystem services provision in response to urbanization in Cameroon
Addressing Urban Sprawl from the Complexity Sciences
Urban sprawl is nowadays a pervasive topic that is subject of a contentious debate among planners and researchers, who still fail to reach consensual solutions. This paper reviews controversies of the sprawl debate and argues that they owe to a failure of the employed methods to appraise its complexity, especially the notion that urban form emerges from multiple overlapping interactions between households, firms and governmental bodies. To addres…
Assessing motorcycle taxi activity in Cameroon using GPS devices
National assessment of cultural ecosystem services
Analyzing four decades of literature on urban planning studies in Africa (1980–2020)
African cities remain little known. As a result, they are outside the global intellectual arena on urban issues, which justifies the need for more productive research. This article aims to empirically analyze the evolution of urban planning studies in Africa, by identifying the trends that characterize scientific production, through a systematic literature review over the last four decades. The study is organized around four different analysis: t…
Examining African contributions to global health
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, public health policy, and medical innovation. Arguing that high-income countries have much to learn from the global South when it comes to health-related knowledge and practices, we propose an inte…
Using Open-Access Data to Explore Relations between Urban Landscapes and Diarrhoeal Diseases in Côte d’Ivoire
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 managers could benefit from a deeper understanding of the relationship between landscape patterns and health outcomes. We conducted an ecological analysis based on a large ensemble of open-access d…
Understanding the Urban Middle-Class and Its Housing Characteristics—Case Study of Casablanca, Morocco
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 are distinctive in spatial organization, material choice, and location, among others. Understanding these emerging typologies is critical for urban housing policy to be responsive to the needs …
Two Decades of Architects’ and Urban Planners’ Contribution to Urban Agriculture and Health Research in Africa
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 scientific contributions of these fields to UA and their relevance compared to other disciplines. The research objectives were to evaluate the trends in the subject, architects’ and planners’ in…
Impact of Topography on Rural Cycling Patterns
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 communities, a more affordable mobility option, such as non-motorized mobility (cycling and walking), is the preferred way for people to travel. Apart from its well-known advantages, little is known…
Spatial Distributions of Diarrheal Cases in Relation to Housing Conditions in Informal Settlements
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 deprivation characteristics as exposures of interest and confronting the latter's spatial distribution to that of diarrheal cases. We tested the hypothesis that the risk of diarrhea in informal settle…
Earthquake risks assessment and urban vulnerability
This study introduces an innovative approach to assessing seismic risks and urban vulnerabilities in Nador, a coastal city in northeastern Morocco at the convergence of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates. By integrating advanced spatial datasets, including Landsat 8–9 OLI imagery, Digital Elevation Models (DEM), and seismic intensity metrics, the research develops a robust urban vulnerability index model. This model incorporates urban land …
Urban Growth and Land Artificialization in Secondary African Cities
While many studies have used Earth observations to quantify urbanization in Africa, there is still a lack of empirical evidence on the role of secondary cities in the fastest urbanizing region in the world. Moreover, the diversity of urbanization processes in Africa, which can be more or less compact in terms of land consumption, remains insufficiently acknowledged and under-documented. This empirical study employed mixed methods to address these…
Comparative modeling of household electricity consumption in France
Electricity consumption in Europe has risen significantly in recent years, with households being the largest consumers of final electricity. Managing and reducing residential power consumption is critical for achieving efficient and sustainable energy management, conserving financial resources, and mitigating environmental effects. Many studies have used statistical models such as linear, multinomial, ridge, polynomial, and LASSO regression to ex…
Evaluation of urban planning practices in Bol City, Lake Province (Chad)
Urban planning is critical to managing rapid urban growth, particularly in African regions experiencing high urbanization rates. This study focuses on Bol, Lake Chad Province, a city facing significant challenges due to inadequate planning frameworks compounded by recurrent humanitarian and climate crises. It fills an empirical gap by analyzing how local planning mechanisms respond to these socio-environmental complexities, with a focus on the in…
The digital policies in the face of access and usage inequalities among young people in intermediate cities in Senegal
This contribution questions young people’s access to digital networks at the scale of intermediate cities in Saint-Louis. Thus, it analyzes the prescriptions of digital actors responsible for the development of digital economy in relation with the orientations of the Senegal Digital 2025 strategy. This is a pretex to highlight the gaps between official political discourses and the level of deployment of digital infrastructures. The study highligh…
Trends, Methods, Drivers, and Impacts of Housing Informalities (HI)
This paper systematically reviews scientific papers to understand the primary forms of HI, why they arise, and how they affect the urban landscape. It addresses the question, “What are the key trends, drivers, and impacts of Housing Informality (HI), and what methods researchers use to study the latter?”. Previous research addressed the trends, drivers, impacts, and methods individually, failing to adopt a holistic perspective that could clarify …
AI for Motorized Travel Time Index Prediction
Smart city initiatives highlight the vital role of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), which remain underexplored with limited AI-driven solutions integration in real-time urban traffic management across African cities. ITS is crucial to enhance urban mobility efficiency and sustainability to address growing mobility challenges in the era of swift African urbanization. This paper proposes an AI-driven predictive model for the Travel Time In…
Rethinking mixed land use measurement and its driving mechanisms
The Era of African Territories
Aspirations for Ownership and Differentiation of Residential Strategies in the Urban Peripheries of Sub-Saharan Africa
Investigating urbanization dynamics and road infrastructure development in the African context
Institutional pathways to climate-resilient agriculture
Climate change continues to undermine agricultural productivity and livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa, where smallholder, rain-fed systems predominate. Kenya and Zimbabwe, representing contrasting decentralized and centralized adaptation systems, provide insights into how institutional design shapes agricultural resilience. This study conducts a comparative institutional analysis of climate change adaptation across four dimensions: land tenure, g…
Geography (18 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Environmental planning (8 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (7 works) · Economic geography (6 works) · Engineering (5 works)