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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.

 

El carácter integrador de la legislación y de los instrumentos de gestión ambiental y la competencia exclusiva y excluyente de la Superintendencia del Medio Ambiente para la fiscalización, seguimiento y sanción de los instrumentos de gestión ambiental...

Authors

  • Leslie Cannoni Mandujano Universidad de Chile
  • Cristóbal Osorio Vargas Universidad de Chile
  • Felipe Riesco Eyzaguirre Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Abstract

The General Environmental Act Nº 19.300, -that was deepen by the enactment of the Act Nº 20.417 that “creates the Ministry of the Environment; the Environmental Assessment Service; and the Environmental Superintendence” - establishes a regime that integrates environmental legislation with instruments of environmental management contained within the Law; due to the fact that diverse sectorial aspects are considered within its creation. The article argues that the most important achievement with the creation of the new environmental framework is to have located at the Environmental Superintendence both enforcement and sanctions of the environmental management instruments mentioned in Article 2nd of the Organic Law of the Environmental Superintendence; as a solution to the dispersion and overlap of the enforcement and sanctions powers; which were the causes of major damage and lack of juridical certainty to the regulated community; ensuring this way both normative and guiding coherence of the environmental enforcement activities in the country.

Keywords:

Environmental legislation, environmental enforcement and sanction, integrative character of the environmental legislation, Environmental Superintendence