Subject(s): Environmental education -- Environmental Management -- Children and the environment -- Sustainable development -- Children's right and responsibilities, development of children's environmental knowledge, concern and action -- Children's developing capacity to participate : Social development, supporting participation of girls as well as boys -- Organizational principles : Avoiding manipulation and tokenism, adult initiated, shared decisions with children -- New models for involving children and new institutional alliances -- Children's participation in practice : Action research with children, environmental planning, design and construction by children, environmental management, environmental monitoring, public awareness and political action by children, from local to global through linking and networks -- Methods : Drawings and collages, mapping and modelling, interviewing and surveys, media and communication, communities for sustainable development in twenty first century