• Children, Citizenship and Environment

Nurturing a Democratic Imagination in a Changing World
By Bronwyn Hayward

This book sets out an inspiring new agenda for citizenship and environmental education which reflects the responsibility and opportunities facing educators, researchers, parents and community groups to support young citizens as they learn to 'make a difference' on the issues that concern them.

• Only One Earth

The Long Road via Rio to Sustainable Development
By Felix Dodds, Michael Strauss, Maurice F. Strong

Forty years after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, the goal of sustainable development continues via the Rio+20 conference in 2012. This book will enable a broad readership to understand what has been achieved in the past forty years and what hasn't.

• Sustainable Buildings and Infrastructure

Paths to the Future
By Annie Pearce, Yong Han Ahn, HanmiGlobal Co, Ltd
Published 22nd February 2012 by Routledge - 482 pages

Construction is one of the biggest industries in the world, providing necessary facilities for human prosperity ranging from the homes in which we live to the highways we drive, the power plants that provide energy for our daily activities, and the very infrastructure on which human society is built.

• Understanding Social Entrepreneurship

The Relentless Pursuit of Mission in an Ever Changing World
By Jill Kickul, Thomas Lyons
Published 19th January 2012 by Routledge - 268 pages

Social entrepreneurship involves the application of business practices to the pursuit of social and/or environmental mission. It brings the mindset, principles, strategies, tools and techniques of entrepreneurship to the social sector, yielding innovative solutions to the vexing problems facing society - poverty, hunger, inadequate housing and homelessness, unemployment and under-employment, illiteracy, disease, environmental degradation, etc. It finds solutions where government and private sector efforts have not.

• Water Loss Management: Tools and Methods for Developing Countries

UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis

Water losses occur in all water distribution systems worldwide and high levels are indicative of poor governance and poor physical condition of the system. Water losses vary from 3% of system input volume in the developed countries to 70% in the developing countries. This high contrast suggests that probably the existing tools and methodologies are not appropriate or cannot be directly applied for water loss reduction in the developing countries.

• Evolution and Innovation in Wildlife Conservation

Parks and Game Ranches to Transfrontier Conservation Areas
Edited by Helen Suich, Brian Child

The crucible of innovation in wildlife and habitat conservation is in southern Africa where it has co-evolved with decolonization, political transformation and the rise of development, ownership, management and livelihood debates. Charting this innovation, early chapters deal with the traditional 'fines and fences' conservation that occurred in the colonial and early post-independence period, with subsequent sections focussing on the experimentation and innovation that occurred on private and communal land as a result of the break from these traditional methods.