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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.

 

Governance of Protected Areas and its necessary incorporation into the bill that creates the Biodiversity Agency

Authors

  • Alejandro Correa Universidad Alberto Hurtado

Abstract

Governance is a relatively modern concept, which is being strongly used in the environmental area, especially in the field of biodiversity conservation. Currently, several papers address the concept of environmental governance or the governance of the strategic natural resources such as water. In addition, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has elaborated several documents addressing the Governance of Protected Areas, proposing guidelines for the countries in order to adopt this concept in their legislations. This article points out to the need to anchor by law, the Governance of protected areas and its various models. This concept aiming to enforce the involvement of the original inhabitants and local communities, who lives surrounds protected areas, the local governments and the private sector, complementing functions and powers of public agencies with competence in the conservation management, particularly the Biodiversity and Protected Areas Agency, which its creation is being discussed in the Congress.

Keywords:

Governance, Biodiversity, Protected Areas