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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.

 

The main setbacks promoted by the Brazilian Forestry Act of 2012

Authors

  • Edson Ferreira Carvalho Universidad Federal de Viçosa
  • Lukas Giessen European Forest Institute
  • Encarnación Fernández University of Valencia

Abstract

The objective of this study is to analyze the main setbacks introduced by the 2012 Brazilian Forestry Act and the political context of its formulation. The analysis is based on a comparison of the rules that regulate the Institutes of the Permanent Preservation Area (APP) and Legal Reserve Area (ARL) in private agrarian properties by the Forest Laws of 1965 and 2012. As well as the positions and interests of the most relevant ac-tors in relation to the protection of natural forests, highlighting the great influence of the agricultural sector. The study demonstrates that the 2012 Forestry Law was formulated to weaken the two main legal institutes for protecting native vegetation in private agrarian properties, legalizes illegal occupations of the two protected areas, amnesties the offenders and increases the territory susceptible of deforestation. In spite of the legislative alterations promoted by the Forest Act of 2012 characterize an indisputable violation to the constitutional guarantee of prohibition of environmental backsliding and of the duties of environmental protection of the Brazilian State, the Federal Supreme Court endorsed them, based on the principle of the division of powers.

Keywords:

Brazil, Forest Act 2012, political context of formulation, principle of the prohibition of environmental backsliding