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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.

 

Pandemic and rights of access to information and participation in environmental matters in Colombia

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Abstract

The measures adopted by governments to address the pandemic impact the exercise of access rights in environmental matters. In Colombia, these measures have manifested themselves in a profusion of regulations and public documents from national and sub-national authorities. The overall objective guiding this article focuses on understanding how these regulatory measures adopted by the Colombian National Government altered the exercise of rights of access to information and participation in environmental matters. To this end, it initially describes the legal context made up of the extraordinary legislation that is the basis of the measures implemented to deal with the pandemic in the country. Then, a hermeneutic analysis is undertaken on the restriction to the access to environmental information through the regulations issued during the emergency caused by the pandemic, the limitations imposed to the previous consultation and the environmental hearing are studied, and briefly the pronouncements made on these issues by the Inter-American System of Human Rights and its special organs are presented, to finally offer some conclusions. In order to achieve the tasks outlined, a methodology based on the qualitative research model was implemented, with the application of the hermeneutic method and the legal dogmatic approach, applying the documentary technique both for the collection of information and for its analysis.

Keywords:

Right of petition, environmental hearing, prior consultation, environmental participation, pandemic

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