Urban Wetlands Law

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Laguna de los lotos in , an urban wetland in Valdivia.

Urban Wetlands Law (Spanish: Ley de Humedales Urbanos) is a Chilean law regulating wetlands in urban areas. The law intends to provide a set of "minimal criteria for the sustainability of urban wetlands, safeguarding its ecological characteristics and their functioning, and to maintain the hydrological regime, both on surface and under the ground".[A][1]

At the request of municipal government the law allows for the to declare official urban wetlands.[1] The Ministry of the Environment can also declare official urban wetlands by its own initiative.[1]

The law modidies the (Ley 19300) and the (Decreto 458) as to consider either wetlands in general or urban wetlands in their provisions.[2]

Scope of the law and definition of wetlands and urban wetlands[]

The scope of the law includes "marshes, swamps, peatlands or water-covered surfaces, be these either natural or artificial, permanent or temporal, stagnant or flowing, sweet, brackish or salt, including areas of sea water, whose depth a low tide does not exceed 6 m".[2][B] The law consider urban wetlands those wetlands that are wholly or partially within an urban area.[1][2]

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Notes[]

  1. ^ Este Reglamento tiene por objeto establece los criterios mínimos para la sustentabilidad de los humedales urbanos, para el resguardo de sus características ecológicas y su funcionamiento, y la mantención del régimen hidrológico, tanto superficial como subterráneo, integrando las dimensiones sociales, económicas y ambientales.[1]
  2. ^ ...la ley define a los humedales como aquellas extensiones de marismas, pantanos y turberas, o superficies cubiertas de agua, sean estas de régimen natural o artificial, permanentes o temporales, estancadas o corrientes, dulces, salobres o saladas, incluidas las extensiones de agua marina, cuya profundidad en marea baja no excede los 6 metros, y que se encuentren total o parcialmente dentro del radio urbano.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e "Ley de Humedales Urbanos 21.202 y su Reglamento". Ministerio del Medio Ambiente (in Spanish). Government of Chile. Retrieved 2021-04-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ a b c d "Ley 21202 Modifica diversos cuerpos legales con el objetivo de proteger los humedales urbanos". bcn.cl. . 2020-01-23. Retrieved 2021-04-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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