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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.
Law No. 21,562: some implications for environmental assessment of projects located in latent and/or saturated areas
Authors
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Matias Cubillos Mialani
Investigador independiente
https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7869-9333
Abstract
On May 29, 2023, Law No. 21,562 was published. This law, which modifies Law No. 19,300 on General Bases of the Environment, made changes related to the environmental assessment of projects or activities located in latent or saturated areas. In that context, this article will analyze those norms, which has a special interest: before the enactment of Law No. 21,562 the only obligated by a latency or saturation decree was the Ministry of the Environment, which had to start elaborating a prevention or decontamination plan. However, the new regulations change the paradigm of this decrees, which has a direct impact on the Environmental Impact Assessment System (SEIA) and on the analyses that both the project holders and the organs of the State Administration must carry out. These new decrees will establish specific conditions that must be considered in significant impacts determination, which implies a modification in the assess of some environmental components. Considering the above, the purpose of this article is to analyze the way in which these new rules must be applied within the framework of the environmental assessment and to reflect on the possible practical and theoretical consequences that these may have.
Keywords:
Law No. 21,562, Environmental Assessment Impact System, Latent and Saturated Areas, Significant Impacts, Entry RouteReferences
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