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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.

 

Challenges for the National Plan of Adaptation to Climate Change: Science and Public Participation

Authors

  • Sebastián Rebolledo Universidad Diego Portales

Abstract

In the last decade there has been a paradigm shift in the so-called Climate Change Law, from the mitigation approach to the impacts caused by variations of the planet temperature towards adaptation to them. This paradigm shift involves not only a regulatory and technical challenge, but also epistemological and social. In this sense, the integration of science in adaptation policies is considered a critical ingredient to ensure the effectiveness of adaptation strategies and actions, which is not always used properly; meanwhile public participation is positioned not only as a guarantee of legitimacy, but also as a delicate factor of efficacy. In consideration to that, the present work outline some ideas about what could be the challenges for the integration of science and public participation in the National Plan of Adaptation to Climate Change.

Keywords:

Adaptation, science, integration, participation