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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.

 

Whispers in the wind?: Public participation performance in Chile's EIA

Authors

  • Ezio Costa Cordella Universidad de Chile
  • Victoria Belemmi Universidad de Chile

Abstract

Environmental regulation considers public participation as a fundamental principle that contributes to improve the environmental decisions, being expression of that its incorporation into the Environmental Impact Assessment System (SEIA). This article evaluates the performance of public participation within this procedure, considering it as a manifestation of public participation in public management. For this purpose, this paper considers the Ibero-American Charter on Public Participation, as a basis to analyze, the participatory procedure from the perspective of three of its functions: community, public and private. The final objective is to identify if the objectives sought at incorporating citi-zen participation in the SEIA are being achieved, 20 years after it started.

Keywords:

public participation, public management, Environmental Impact Assessment