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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.

 

Climate change and urban planning: Challenges and opportunities for Strategic Environmental Assessment

Authors

  • Robert Currie Ríos Universidad Andrés Bello
  • Gonzalo Pérez González Independent researcher

Abstract

Climate change severely affects cities and their inhabitants. Its effects on urban centers, such as an increase in temperature, heatwaves, urban heat islands, natural disasters, shortages of goods and food, and floods, impact the health of the population and are exacerbated in a pandemic context. In this scenario, urban-planning instruments require a strategic view that enables the integration of climate change variables, aimed at reducing vulnerability and strengthen the resilience of cities, while they also contribute to greenhouse gases reduction. In this setting, our work examines the legal framework for Strategic Environmental Assessment and its role in integrating the multiple views on the territory, contributing to achieving land use planning that harmonizes the different territorial scales. Likewise, we describe the support that this environmental management instrument provides to the Responsible Authority in incorporating adaptation and mitigation considerations to climate change during the process of drafting the respective urban planning instrument. Lastly, we review some challenges and opportunities for this environmental management instrument, highlighting the relevance of its application across all land-use planning instruments, as well as the active involvement of citizens.

Keywords:

climate change, urban planning, environmental impact assessment, pandemic

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