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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.

 

The regulations as an alternative to guarantee the human right to water against climate change

Authors

  • Andres Martínez-Moscoso Universidad de Cuenca

Abstract

Ecuador has promoted important inputs to the discussion of XXI century Environmental Law, since the recognition of the Nature as a subject of rights, and for it proposes to protect the biodiversity. The Ecuadorian congressman has included in the national water law a new figure of water protection areas, a sui generis category, because it has similar conditions like a national park, and it accomplishes the conservation of fragile ecosystems which could guarantee the human right of water during drought especially due climate change effects. This paper study the constitution and secondary normative with an historical vision, especially focus in the evolution of environmental law, the work put emphasis on the success of the norm in relation to this new figure of protection and show the process with the purpose to make it exportable to other legislation. The figure of water protection areas shows how the combination of efforts between different actors: public, private and communitarian, could obtain positive results for the environment protection and as an action against climate change, as mitigation and adaptation measures. The paper study the constitution and secondary normative with an historical vision, especially focus in the evolution of environmental law, the work put emphasis on the success of the norm in relation to this new figure of protection and show the process with the purpose to make it exportable to other legislation. The figure of water protection areas shows how the combination of efforts between different actors: public, private and communitarian, could obtain positive results for the environment protection and as a mitigation and adopting measures against climate change.

Keywords:

Hydric protection, climate change, water, Ecuador

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