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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.
Verification of the vessel’s seaworthiness as a prerequisite for the prevention of disasters arising from the spill or discharge of oil at sea
Authors
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Renato Pezoa Huerta
The London Shipping Law Centre
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9438-2836
Abstract
According to the International Maritime Organisation, oil tankers transport around 2.9 billion tonnes of crude oil and petroleum products by sea each year worldwide. Most of the time, oil is transported safely and quietly. However, the development of the transport activity is not free from risks that threaten the success of the navigation, endangering the ship, the oil cargo and, of course, the environment. This article studies, analyses, systematises and understands how the «unseaworthiness» of the ship is a prerequisite that maximises the probability of the occurrence of an environmental catastrophe due to the spillage or dumping of oil at sea. For this purpose, it is determined what is seaworthiness, the factors on which the concept is based; the consequences of the absence, lack of suitability, incompetence or lack of completeness are analysed which, if present both in a structural and naval technical aspect, as well as in the surveillance and control exercised by the tanker owner over the crew and other dependents, could ensure and prevent the occurrence of risks that may be an efficient cause for the spill or dumping of oil at sea.
Keywords:
Seaworthiness, unseaworthiness, dumping, spill, oilReferences
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