Musoke Nakabuye JulietNyadoi Priscilla2026-11-122026-11-122026-06-02Nakabuye, J.M., Nyadoi, P. (2026). Legal Responses to Land and Environmental Governance in Uganda’s Albertine Rift: A Review and Perspectives. In: Nyadoi, P., Mbabazi, F.K., Ssali, F. (eds) Sustainable Development Goals in Africa. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-20742-5_3Print 978-3-032-20741-8Online 978-3-032-20742-5http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12280/3317We interrogated Uganda’s legal framework to determine whether it effectively addresses land governance and environmental protection in the oil-rich Albertine Graben. The review benchmarks against the legal international agenda on environmental protection established by the 1992 Earth Summit and its subsequent conventions. We used documentary analyses and focused on determining the state of access to justice regarding land rights and the conservation of biodiversity from literature. Our investigation discovered inconsistencies in enforcement practices and legislative gaps in the domestication of international environmental law.enhttps://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Law and economicsInternational environmental lawEnvironmental ecojusticeEnvironmental lawLegal geographyPublic international lawResource nationalism and governance in extractive industriesBook chapterhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-20742-5_3