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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.

 

Environmental Assessment and Climate Change: Criteria for their proper determination in the framework of projects or activities submitted to the Environmental Impact Assessment System

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Abstract

The objective of this article is to address the incorporation of climate change as a variable in the environmental assessment of projects in the framework of the Environmental Assessment System, both for projects that are under environmental assessment and projects that have already been assessed. The foregoing, bearing in mind that Chilean Law includes the concept of climate change, providing a definition and granting to the Ministry of Environment attributions linked to climate change. However, our laws fail to provide criteria allowing to include this global variable when a particular project or activity is assessed in the Environmental Impact Assessment System. In the absence of such legal framework, this article aims to provide a series of criteria that allow the incorporation of climate change when assessing a project or when it’s under construction or operation, analyzing, besides, how the Chilean Courts have ruled regarding how climate change must be taken into account under this tool of assessment.

Keywords:

Climate change, risk, environmental impact assessment

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