Jérôme Cerutti

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Université Laval

Au Canada, l’approche à barrières multiples permet une gestion multidimensionnelle de l’eau à l’aide d’outils et de pratiques permettant d’assurer une eau de qualité, de la source (lac, rivière, etc.) au robinet des citoyens. Une de ces barrières, la protection des sources d’eau potable (PSEP), cherche à anticiper ou à réduire les risques naturels...

This paper describes an action research project with the Centre universitaire intégré de santé et de services sociaux - Capitale Nationale (CIUSSS-CN) who identified a need to assess vulnerability in their territories in order to ensure equitable distribution of the Integrated Perinatal and Early Childhood Services (SIPPE) program funds. The object...

Founded in 1608 and once the capital of France’s vast empire in the New World, Québec City (Canada), a UNESCO world heritage city, is one of the oldest in North America. Like many cities, it is faced with various economic pressures to allow new profitable real estate investments, sometimes at the expense of buildings with potentially a high heritag...

The field of multicriteria decision aiding (MCDA) has been growing over the last decades, with new methods and applications published in various areas. Still, numerous studies assume that the decision problem is given, that the sets of alternatives and criteria are already structured, and that the stakeholders, when they are involved, share a commo...

In response to a need expressed by water actors to support them in identifying appropriate actions for protecting drinking water sources, we modelled, designed, implemented, tested, and validated a prototype case-based reasoning (CBR) system. This required an intensive knowledge acquisition and structuring process which we conducted in collaboratio...

“How can drinking water sources be protected, and how can one learn from others who have faced similar problems?” These questions are becoming increasingly relevant in a context where anthropogenic activities threaten natural resources. We describe in this paper a knowledge acquisition and modelling process to support complex decision-making relate...

Context Maintaining a high-water quality is one of the main challenges of the 21 st century 4 and SWP is one way to ensure it. SWP is used in a LUP context to reduce negative impacts of anthropogenic activities on water. However, implementing SWP in LUP implies acting on a regional scale and faces several challenges such as: Objective The objective...

Protecting source water is an important step in maintaining high drinking water quality. This involves the implementation of various actions, on the territorial level, aimed at reducing the impact of anthropogenic activities on water sources. Acting on the territory involves many organizations with different goals and responsibilities resulting in...

Maintaining high water quality is one of the major challenges of the 21st century. To address this issue, source water protection is one important step in the right direction. Protection implies the implementation of various actions in order to reduce the impacts of anthropogenic activities on water sources, meant for human consumption. However, ac...

Groundwater is an essential resource for water supply, but it is vulnerable to the potential impacts of contaminant emissions from human activities. It is widely recognized that the effects of human activities on groundwater quality and quantity can be mitigated, in large part, by appropriate land-use planning because it plays a central role in gro...