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BEYOND CONSTITUTIONAL PROMISES: EXAMINING THE ENFORCEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS IN UGANDA THROUGH CLIMATE JUSTICE AND ECOLOGICAL CONSTITUTIONALISM

Identification

Clé publique

doi:10.5281/zenodo.23769121

Auteurs

AKATUKUNDA SALIMAH

Année déclarée

2026

Langue déclarée

en

Type source

article

Première détection

2026-11-09T19:04:47.587271+00:00

Dernière observation des métadonnées

2026-11-09T19:05:46.530420+00:00

Dernière vérification HTTP

Non effectuée

Institutions déclarées par la source

Kampala International University

Pays d’affiliation déclarés

UG

Résumé documentaire — langue originale

The right to a clean and healthy environment is often treated as secondary in discussions of human rights, even where, as in Uganda, it is written into the Constitution. This systematic literature review asks how far that right, and the statutory rights of nature and climate provisions that now surround it, is realised and enforced in practice, using climate justice and ecological constitutionalism as analytical lenses. A PRISMA-adapted protocol was applied across list the databases actually searched in two streams: scholarly literature, and primary and grey sources such as legislation, case records and institutional reports. Records were identified and sources were included after screening and appraisal. The evidence suggests that constitutional recognition is a necessary foundation rather than a sufficient cause of enforcement. It has supported relaxed standing, public trust reasoning and some protective court orders, but delay, weak remedies, jurisdictional rules, limited institutional capacity and pressure on environmental defenders reduce its effect, and the statutory right of nature has yet to be tested in court. Public awareness of constitutional rights also appears limited, so educating the public, and private industry in particular, about the right to a healthy environment and the duty to protect it is a practical precondition for enforcement. The review finds a thin body of peer-reviewed, Uganda-specific research and proposes empirical, doctrinal and comparative directions for future work.

Identifiants

OPENALEX

W7224615085

DOI

10.5281/zenodo.23769121

Repères documentaires

Famille documentaire

Doctrine

Types déclarés par les sources

article

Juridictions étudiées — sources explicites

UG

Les mentions d’entités ne constituent pas une preuve de reconnaissance juridique. La juridiction étudiée est distincte du pays d’affiliation des auteurs.

Sources

OpenAlex · Document 1 · Document 2

• DOI · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23769121
• OpenAlex · https://openalex.org/W7224615085

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