Laclé, Francielle

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PhD Candidate SISSTEM (Junior Researcher & Junior Lecturer)
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Last updated April 29, 2025
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Francielle Laclé is a junior researcher and lecturer at the University of Aruba. She is currently conducting her PhD in a sandwich program between the University of Aruba and the KU Leuven, Belgium. Her PhD is on social innovation and just resilience in the governance of marine and terrestrial ecosystems in small island social-ecological systems. At the University of Aruba she has prior experience as a lecturer for the course Environmental Science within the Faculty of Hospitality and Tourism Management Studies (FHTMS), the course Small Island Developing States within the Faculty of Arts and Science program Organization, Governance and Management (FAS-OGM) and is currently a lecturer for the courses Principles of Sustainability as well as Environmental Law and Policy within the Sustainable Island Solutions through Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (SISSTEM) program. Her research has been focused in the fields of environmental sociology, human geography, environmental economics, and sustainability science.

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    Linking ecosystem services and the Sustainable Development Goals in Small Island Developing States: the case of Aruba.
    (Pensoft, 2021) Palacios, Elena; van Beukering, Pieter P.J.H.; van Zanten, Boris; Laclé, Francielle; Schep, Stijn; Soellner, Inga
    The economy and well-being in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and other Subnational Island Jurisdictions (SNIJ) highly rely on marine and coastal ecosystem services (ESS). Moreover, SIDS and SNIJ share common challenges in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Building a fact-based solution to demonstrate the link between ESS and SDGs is essential for nature conservation and sustainable development in SIDS and SNIJ. In this study, we developed a 5-step approach to capture the contribution of ESS to the achievement of SDGs in Aruba by means of a shortlist of indicators, with the aim to provide information for optimal policy investments to implement the Aruba 2030 roadmap. The results numerically and spatially demonstrate the contribution of fisheries, nature-based tourism and local cultural recreational ESS to achieve SDG targets 14.7 (increase SIDS' economic benefits from sustainable use of marine resources), 8.9 (devise and implement policies to promote sustainable tourism) and 3.4 (promote mental health and well-being); and how investing in these key ESS could lead to multiplying co-benefits for other SDGs. This paper also discusses how the 5-step approach and the outcomes can be used to assist other SIDS and SNIJ in their ambitions to meet the SDGs.
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    Young Islanders conserving their large ocean state and beyond.
    (Institute for Islands and Sustainability, 2023) Laclé, Francielle
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    Islands, tourism and water: Water stress as a symptom of the insularity-islandness tension
    (2021-12-14) Skrimizea, E.; Laclé, Francielle; Parra, C.
    Abstract for the Sustainable Island Futures III December 14, 2021 Islands, tourism and water: Water stress as a symptom of the insularity-islandness tension Eirini Skrimizea, KU Leuven, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Leuven, Belgium, eirini.skrimizea@kuleuven.be Francielle Lacle, SISSTEM, University of Aruba, Aruba & KU Leuven, Belgium, francielleamis.lacle@student.kuleuven.be Constanza Parra, KU Leuven, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Leuven, Belgium, constanza.parra@kuleuven.be Tourism increases, diversifies and concentrates water consumption in space and time; it contributes to social-ecological processes that often make tourist destinations vulnerable to water stress. Climate change projections foresee an increase in water stress problems in many tourist resorts. Tourist islands are considered particularly vulnerable to water stress due to their geographic isolation and the limited options for enhancing supply. Despite the significance of the issue, an understanding of the water-tourism complex as a social-ecological phenomenon and as a challenge for the sustainable development of the islands remains under-researched. To address this gap, in this paper, we introduce the “Water-Tourism Social-Ecological Systems framework” based on literature on water and tourism, social-ecological systems, adaptation, vulnerability/resilience, and island studies. We apply this framework to investigate the so far underexplored water stress vulnerability of the island of Rhodes (Greece) through in-depth interviews with key actors and secondary sources. Our analysis eventually connects the water issue to unsustainable development lock-ins related to the insularity-islandness tension. As such, it moves beyond the usual applied management perspective focused on efficient water use and opens up the scope of solutions that are being discussed arguing for the need of bringing forward sustainability transformations in tourist islands. Further elaborating on our work, we conclude with a reflection on the implications for research questions, methodologies and issues to be tackled in small-island states, using the example of Aruba.