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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.

 

Analysis of the agreements of the Council of Ministers for Sustainability

Authors

  • Oscar Reicher Salazar Universidad de Concepción

Abstract

In 2010, Chile’s environmental institutions were reformed by creating a Council of Ministers for Sustainability (CMS). The reason behind this modification was that before the reform, each sector could issue general or specific administrative acts on environmental matters without the participation of the environmental authority. Given this situation, the CMS is given the competence to pronounce on draft laws and administrative acts that derive from both the environmental authority and the sectoral bodies with competence in the matter. However, after 10 years of implementation of this reform, it is necessary to review whether the reform has achieved its stated objective. To this end, the agreements adopted by the CMS were reviewed following the session minutes published on the CMS website for the period 2010-2020. The results show that the creation of the CMS has not contributed significantly to the incorporation of the environmental variable, in addition to a concentration of the type of use of management instruments. Furthermore, it shows that protected area agreements play an important role in the joint management by the Ministry of Environment with other sectoral ministries.

Keywords:

Council of Ministers for Sustainability, environmental institutionality, Ministry of Environment, sectoral ministries, integration and Development

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