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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.

 

Climate change, Agenda 2030 and agrarian questions in a post-pandemic world: States, legitimacy and local environmental regulation in Chile, Sweden, and the United States

Authors

  • Cristián Alarcón Ferrari Universidad de Ciencias Agrícolas de Suecia

Abstract

This article aims to contribute to the conceptual and empirical analysis of local environmental regulation in rural areas in the context of the covid-19 crisis and the climate crisis. The article offers an analysis of the relationships between the politics of climate change and Agenda 2030 in the context of current agrarian questions in three rural settings of Chile, Sweden and the US. Within this context, the article uses empirical material from fieldwork in three rural areas and it develops on and builds upon a conceptual framework to approach and discuss different types of state, problems of legitimacy and normative conflicts in the context of local environmental regulation. The comparative analysis offered in this article shows us the centrality of normative conflicts and issues of legitimacy in environmental regulation in the context of new agrarian questions in rural areas while facing some of the most important challenges for climate action. The article concludes by highlighting the importance, potential and limits of the experiences of local environmental regulation in the rural areas analyzed in the article with a focus on how these cases can be seen as alternative ways to develop environmental policy in more legitimate ways. This, as it is argued in the article, needs to be considered in relation to local democratic processes and the role of local governments in the planning and definition concerning the use and management of local resources.

Keywords:

Climate change, Agenda 2030, agrarian questions, covid-19, local environmental regulation

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