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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.

 

Application principles of environmental democracy on Law N° 20.920, framework for waste management, extended producer responsability and recycling promotion

Authors

  • Gianfranco Raglianti Borbolla Universidad de Chile

Abstract

Environmental democracy, understood as a particular manifestation of environmental justice, is embodied in several indicators, such as public participation, in-formation access, and an effective access to procedures. On its hand, Law Nº 20.920 framework for waste management, extended producer responsibility and recycling promo-tion, reforms and systematizes the way that wastes are treated in Chile, specially through the “extended producer responsibility”: a policy approach, applied in several countries, under which producers accept significant responsibility - financial and/or physical - for the treatment or disposal of post-consumer products, looking for them to internalize such costs. Hence, it is more than a new law; it is a public policy that interferes with the market, regu-lating and producing economic alterations. This work analyzes the way that the instruments and regulations of Law Nº 20.920 reflect various principles of environmental democracy, taking as a basis the commitments that Chile adopted by virtue of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, in 1992.

Keywords:

Extended producer responsability, Environmental democracy, Public participation, information access, Access to procedures