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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 denaturation role of the General Analysis on Economic and Social Impact on the elaboration of Environmental Quality Standards

Authors

  • Robert Currie Ríos Universidad Andrés Bello
  • Gonzalo Pérez González Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Abstract

The elaboration of environmental quality standards, whether primary or secondary (in the case of Chilean legislation), is done through an administrative procedure that includes a technical and economic analysis. In this context, the General Analysis on Economic and Social Impact (AGIES for its acronym in Spanish) are developed. The methodology for the generation of AGIES varies according to the type of regulation. However, although the new jurisprudential tendency restrains and forces the administration to use an economic analysis based on cost-benefit criteria, which ends up being incompatible with the specific circumstances and protection objectives of these regulations. This paper studies the importance of the AGIES in the process of generating environmental quality standards and the relevance of the jurisprudential tendency in this regard. Particularly, this paper analyzes the interpretative conflicts that arise from these new rulings and their consequences for environmental justice. Finally, this paper considers the impact of the restrictions imposed to the administration, and suggests some alternatives to the cost-benefit framework that better adapts to the nature and objectives of the instruments to regulate environmental standards.

Keywords:

General Analysis on Economic and Social Impact, Quality standard regulations, cost-benefit, environmental justice