Editorial

PRESENTATION

Groups and sectors of society pin all their hopes in accumulation of knowledge which allows giving solutions to the problems of a world in conflict. Experience has shown that generation of this necessary and useful knowledge should emerge from several points of view and contributions of all sectors; that is, collective construction of this knowledge should be promoted.

For this reason, tools such as release and socialization allow oxygenation of several production spaces; that is, already existing knowledge can be controversial, cleared, objected, reconstructed or supported.

Publication of our special issue on environmental law, ''Opinión Jurídica'' Journal wants to continue making contributions to this endless dialogue concerning the juridical field in order to open a discussion on the current theory. This issue shows 8 articles resulting from research conducted by the authors.

For this issue, 15 articles were received; all of them were evaluated by peers assigned by the Editorial Committee of our journal. Based on the evaluation of articles and recommendations made by the Editor, a decision was made to publish those articles having the best evaluation scores and were in compliance with academic requirements demanded, with the purpose of keeping a permanent improvement of our journal quality to reach a higher domestic and international acceptance, and this has up to date resulted in our journal A1 classification by COLCIENCIAS, Latindex, RedAlyc, Sociological Abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service), EBSCO – Fuente Académica Premier, SciElo – Colombia (Scientific Electronic Library Online-Colombia), EBSCO – SocINDEX, EBSCO-Academic Search Complete, Vlex, Lex Base, CLASE, DOAJ, DIALNET, and GALE CENGAGE LEARNING.

We are then presenting the articles of researchers Agudo González, Erika Castro-Buitrago, Gloria Amparo Rodríguez, Jeferson Marin, Carlos Alberto Lunelli, Helena Pérez Garcés, Carlos Alberto Zárate Yepes, Sandra Milena Turbay Ceballos, Lisneider Hinestroza Cuesta, Marisela Mena Valencia, Kelly Johana Palacios Sánchez, Leonardo Güiza Suárez, Jorge Eduardo Vásquez-Santamaría, and Luis Felipe Jaramillo de los Ríos, with topics related to the environmental administrative law, environmental conflicts, water and biodiversity, urban planning, and solid wastes.