Rivista Quadrimestrale di Diritto dell'Ambiente (ISSN: 2239-964X)

Description

Internationalization and interdisciplinarity have been identified as priorities already in 2010, in launching the Journal and bringing it to the attention of the academic community.
On the one hand, the Journal does not only aim at targeting the public of Italian scholars, but also intends to take part in the transnational debate which is in progress about the evolution, nature, transformations and limits of environmental law. In order to open up the Journal to the reading and active involvement of foreign legal scholars, some strategic choices have been made: many distinguished scholars from all continents have joined the International Advisory and Peer Review Board; multilingualism has been promoted and implemented by accepting manuscripts in Italian, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish; each issue of the Journal will include written contributions from different legal experiences, so as to reflect pluralistically and representatively the multiple inspirations of environmental law in the various geographic areas of the world, respecting the different doctrinal traditions also in relation to their own methodological approach and citation style.
On the other hand, in addition to the legal knowledge and, therefore, beyond the wide range of legal disciplines (administrative, constitutional, international, European, comparative, civil, agricultural, criminal, etc .) primarily concerned by the “polyhedron” of environmental law, the Journal intends to give due importance to contributions from non-legal sciences related to environmental issues, such as ecological economics, environmental ethics and philosophy, environmental sociology, food sciences.
Every issue of the Journal comprises two leading and regular sections, namely: “SAGGI”, reserved for full research articles; “NOTE E COMMENTI”, reserved for short articles or case notes. Both these regular sections will comply with a rigorous blind peer review in line with the best international and national standards, including those under the regulations/guidelines by the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (ANVUR) as for ranking “A”-Class Journals (in any case, as regards the section “SAGGI”, a double-blind peer review shall always be guaranteed: please refer to the new Guidelines for Authors and Editorial Policy published on the Journal website both in Italian and in English). Other eventual Sections, where appropriate, shall be: “OPINIONI E SEGNALAZIONI” (not necessarily peer-reviewed but subjected to a prior assessment by the Board of Editors), designed to be an open and informal discussion forum for publishing, sharing and disseminating reviews, debates, reports, valuable experiences arising from good administrative pratices or foreign legislation or case law, proposals, opinions of authoritative and leading figures in the various legal fields; “PAPERS” (not necessarily peer-reviewed but subjected to a prior assessment by the Board of Editors), reserved for conferences papers presented at scientific congresses, workshops or seminars.
The ambition of the Journal remains to provide not only a descriptive or critical but also an heuristic perspective for environmental law, as a maieutic laboratory to pioneer and rethink legal principles, systematic categories, methods and dogmatic concepts, which would be meaningful also for the general legal theory.
The open-access policy of the Journal – namely the cultural choice to make the Journal freely and fully available online to anyone with Internet access – will be ensured, with a view to disseminating, sharing and advancing knowledge by ensuring public full access to the results of research.