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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.
Determination of rules and criteria of environmental justice in the enforcement powers of the Superintendency of the Environment
Authors
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Dominique Herve Espejo
Universidad Diego Portales
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3239-6236
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Franco Arias Contreras
Universidad Diego Portales
https://orcid.org/0009-0007-2572-1030
Abstract
This work proposes that the regulatory design of certain instruments incorporated to the Organic Law of the Superintendency of the Environment allows the application of environmental justice rules and criteria. In order to identify which are the possible applicable environmental justice standards, an analysis of the regulations and administrative practice of the said authority, since its entry into force, is carried out, with special emphasis on inspection programs and subprograms, compliance programs and environmental sanctions. Next, the paper includes an explanation of the development and conclusions of an empirical study on the application of these instruments in certain municipalities that have been classified as “sacrifice zones”. Finally, based on this analysis, various rules and criteria of environmental justice that are applicable to environmental enforcement are identified and proposed.
Keywords:
environmental enforcement, environmental justice, sacrifice zones, Superintendence of the EnvironmentReferences
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