‎'‎written with passion and energy ‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎ conveys its thesis with great power‎'‎ ‎- Gary Clemitshaw‎,‎ British Journal of Educational Studies ‎'‎a thoughtful‎,‎ powerful and timely case‎'‎ ‎- Nancy Erbstein‎,‎ Children‎,‎ Youth and Environments ‎'‎Bronwyn Hayward‎'‎s magisterial book reminds us that it‎'‎s not just the biosphere that is threatened through environmental degradation‎,‎ but our children‎'‎s imaginations as well‎,‎ and hence all our future hopes‎.‎ As we won‎'‎t achieve sustainable human wellbeing within a flourishing biosphere without citizens who both care about sustainability and are able to act on their concerns‎,‎ we need to take children seriously as political actors‎.‎ Bronwyn Hayward argues that‎,‎ because we cannot live sustainably when social structures and decision‎-making are unjust‎,‎ we need to nurture young people as citizens if they are to address the wide‎-ranging problems we‎'‎ve created‎:‎ dangerous environmental change‎,‎ growing social inequality‎,‎ an unsustainable global economy‎,‎ and weakening democracies‎.‎ This w‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎