ABSTRACT
This chapter begins by examining the relationship between children and their environments, and the relevance of sustainable development' to children's lives. It therefore calls for children's concerns to be incorporated into all policies for environment and development at local, regional and national levels and, in particular, for the involvement of children and youth in decision-making processes. The chapter then proceeds to an examination of the implementation of education for sustainable development into the curriculum in Lesotho, beginning with the adoption of development studies as a curriculum subject and moving on to explore how sustainability is being mainstreamed across the curriculum today. Some households are located in areas affected by domestic or industrial contamination or exposed to animal waste. It is often the poor who are compelled to live in the least healthy environments. Contaminants in food and water actually kill fewer children annually than contaminants in the air.
