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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.
Species classification as a constitutive environmental management tool: A review of the Chilean Supreme Court's ruling of June 11, 2024, rol 84.028-2023
Abstract
The commented ruling establishes that the legal nature of species classification under article 37 of Law 19.300 as an environmental management instrument is merely declarative, as there will only be a duty of the State related to the protection and management of a species when the respective recovery, conservation, and management plans are drawn up. The following commentary debates this thesis upheld by the Third Environmental Court and later by the Supreme Court, arguing that the species classification instrument indeed has a constitutive nature that creates obligations for the State. The proposed analysis is structured into three parts: the first aims to establish the central elements of the case; the second section will address and develop the arguments and regulations in constitutional and sectoral terms that support the constitutive nature of the instrument, as well as the civil, administrative, and criminal penalties associated with the violation of these regulations; the third will demonstrate that the proposed analysis aligns with the in dubio pro natura principle recognized by the Court's jurisprudence. The commentary concludes that species classification is a constitutive instrument and that the reasoning of the Third Environmental Court and the Supreme Court presents an interpretation incompatible with constitutional and legal norms, directly omitting the duties established by such precepts, resulting in a gap concerning the protection of species classified as critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable, near-threatened, or data deficient.
Keywords:
Species classification, nature preservation, in dubio pro natura, threatened speciesReferences
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