Responding to Climate Change: The Economy and Economics - Part of the Problem and Solution

The Climate Change Starter’s Guide provides an introduction and overview for education planners and practitioners on the wide range of issues relating to climate change and climate change education, including causes, impacts, mitigation and adaptation strategies, as well as some broad political and economic principles. The aim of this guide is to serve as a starting point for mainstreaming climate change education into school curricula. It has been created to enable education planners and practitioners to understand the issues at hand, to review and analyse their relevance to particular national and local contexts, and to facilitate the development of education policies, curricula, programmes and lesson plans. The guide covers four major thematic areas: 1. the science of climate change, which explains the causes and observed changes; 2. the social and human aspects of climate change including gender, health, migration, poverty and ethics; 3. policy responses to climate change including measures for mitigation and adaptation; and 4. education approaches including education for sustainable development, disaster reduction and sustainable lifestyles. A selection of key resources in the form of publication titles or websites for further reading is provided after each of the thematic sections

Aspects immunologiques de l'insuffisance renale. [Immunological aspects of acute renal insufficiency]

Uremic patients are known to be particularly susceptible to infections and possibly cancer. They have a definite cutaneous anergy to the various antigens used to test delayed-type hypersensitivity. However, in vitro investigations of the individual functions involved in the immune response have not disclosed a profound and reproducible defect of one of these functions. This could be due to the heterogeneity of the patients studied (uremia of differing etiology, variation in metabolic and nutritional conditions, and influence of multiple complications). It is also possible that the main defect lies in regulation and cooperation between the individual functions