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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.

 

Environmental (un)justice in Chile and main mechanisms to mitigate inequality: land use planning and rights of vulnerable communities

Authors

  • Paloma Infante Universidad de Chile

Abstract

The paper describes the main tools in order to enhance and equilibrate the environmental impacts distribution of a project or activity, from the environmental justice perspective. First, the article gives a definition of environmental justice and refers to the origins of the environmental justice movement, its normative incorporation and the comparative experience. Then, the article focuses on the environmental justice in Chile and on some legal tools, policies and regulations that indirectly integrates the environmental justice concept. Finally, the paper analyses two main regulatory tools associated to the environmental justice enhancement: the land use planning and the overburdened communities rights. In connection with the legal recognition of the overburdened communities concept, the paper reviews sub-mechanisms connected to the overburdened communities rights, such as the access to the information and a level the playing field in the negotiations processes, among others.

Keywords:

Environmental justice, land use planning, overburdened communities