Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Period
Country
developments
Environmental law & principles
Trend
Chile
1964: Presidential election of
Christian Democrat Eduardo
Frei Montalva initiated a
period of major reform
Chile's liberal governments experimented
with reallocation of rights to water to
incorporate new technology and planning
criteria to promote transformative social
justice aims
Reform & Redistribution
1967 -: Major economic
depression, peaking in 1970
First Agrarian Reform Law (Law No.
15,020) passed by Jorge Allessandri.
Creation of CORA (Corporacion de la
Reforma Agraria)
Agrarian Reform: Revised Agrarian
Reform Law (Law No. 16, 640).
Significant land expropriation &
redistribution start. Water law revised to
reinstate state control over water
resources, cancelling former concessions
1970
Switzerland
Development of a highly
industrialised consumer
based industry placed
additional demands
on the State
Economic expansion becomes
the dominant principle.
Increases in consumption
and demand for goods
Total revision of state policy and competen-
cies (e.g. energy & Umweltbelastungen)
Population pressures met through more
comprehensive legal framework regarding
water
1971: More comprehensive Water Protection
Act, to meet the consequences of growing
pollution
Technical Approach to protection from water
maintained
Federal Law against Pollution: Since the
1950s, a large number of technical
regulations have been developed in order
to protect against pollution, which the
cantons are responsible for implementing.
1971: Federal Office of the Environment
established
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