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Environmental Law Journal becomes part of Scielo Chile

The publication edited by the Environmental Law Center will be part of an open access collection of Chilean scientific journals in all areas of knowledge.

The Environmental Law Journal, edited by the Environmental Law Center of the Law School of the University of Chile, was admitted to be part of the SciELO - Chile Scientific Electronic Library.

SciELO - Chile is an open access collection of texts from Chilean scientific journals, from all areas of knowledge, which predominantly publish articles resulting from scientific research, and which uses peer review of the manuscripts they receive, which show a growing performance in the indicators of compliance with the indexing criteria.

"We are very pleased with this recognition, which is the result of an effort of continuous improvement of the editorial processes developed by the editorial team, which has resulted in the growing increase in the quality of the articles published over the years," said the director of the Journal, Prof. Valentina Durán Medina, adding "we are grateful for the support of the Faculty, which through its Dean, Prof. Pablo Ruiz-Tagle, and the Journals Program of the Research Department, headed by Prof. Daniel Álvarez, has provided permanent support to the work of the journal."

"Once the collaboration agreement between the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile and the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID) is signed, the full incorporation of the journal to this collection will take place, starting in 2022" explained the editor Jorge Ossandón Rosales.

This good news is in addition to the admission, in 2020, of the Environmental Law Journal to the SCOPUS database.

As a result, in 2022 the Environmental Law Journal will already be indexed in Scopus, Redib, DOAJ and Latindex, in addition to ScIELO, with the support of SISIB and the Journals Program of the Research Department of the Law School of the Universidad of Chile.

It should be noted that Issue 16 of this biannual journal will be published on December 31.

 

Cambio en la interpretación administrativa sobre las Áreas Protegidas para efectos del SEIA: El caso de las Áreas de Protección de Recursos de Valor Natural

Authors

  • Felipe Meneses Sotelo American University

Abstract

The General Environmental Act Nº 19.300 establishes in article 10 p) that “the execution of works, programs or activities in national parks, national reserves, natural monuments, wildlife reserves, nature sanctuaries, marine parks, marine reserves or in any other area under official protection” must be evaluated within the Environmental Impact Assessment System (“SEIA”) Because neither the mentioned law nor the Regulations of the EIAS have identified the areas covered by this residual clause, the environmental authority has had to interpret the concept by developing in a list which has remained virtually unchanged for more than a decade. In May of 2013 the environmental authority changed its interpretation suppressing from the list the “areas for protection of natural values” established in different territorial planning instruments. This article explores on the legal causes for such change and its possible consequences.

Keywords:

Areas for Protection of Natural Values, Territorial Planning, Environmental Impact Assessment System