Industrial Ecology and Environmental Lean Management: Lights and Shadows

Editorial: “Cancer Immunotherapy: Lights and Shadows”

Cancer immunotherapy has recently emerged as the fourth treatment modality, in addition to surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. These advances are the result of important discoveries in the field of regulation of the immune response, especially on the mechanisms which turn “on” and “off ” immune responses (1, 2). A diseasewhich has proved to be a canonicalmodel to test therapeutic immunothe...

Industrial Clusters and Environmental Management

Technology and mathematics in the classroom: lights and shadows

RESUME: Les recherches conduites sur les Technologies pour l’Information et la Communication (TIC) ont pour but surtout de décrire les aspects techniques de l’innovation permise par leur usage. Ici on introduit deux critéres qui considérent l’usage des TIC dans une perspective cognitive et culturelle. Le premier critère considère les TIC comme des systèmes culturelles sémiotiques. Le deuxième, ...

Rangeland Ecology, Management and Conservation Benefits

The book written by seventeen experts in the field of rangeland management, this compilation of essays brings to light the latent issues concerning this subject to readers all over the globe. Though technical approaches can address some issues, social processes ultimately prevent the balancing of these matters. Socio-economic and political institutions are often a stumbling block for improving ...

Towards a closer integration of environmental education and industrial ecology

Industrial processes are known to have different levels of impact on the environment and, as a result, there is a need to foster knowledge of the environmental consequences of industrial activities and check those against their benefits. One of the ways of achieving this is by applying the concepts of industrial ecology to industry’s day-to-day life. Another possible way of pursuing this goal i...