The corporatization of organics has been critiqued for the concentration of ownership, as well as the ecological consequences of the long distances commodities travel between field and table. These critiques suggest a competing vision of food democracy which strives to organize the production and consumption of food at a proximate geographic scale while increasing opportunities for democratically managed cooperation between producers and consumers. This paper examines how the corporate‐organic foodscape has interacted and evolved alongside competing counter movements of food democracy. Using discourse and content analysis, we examine how corporate organics incorporate messages of locally scaled food production, humble origins, and a commitment to family farms and employees, and explore some of the complexity of the corporate‐organic foodscape. This paper contributes to the understanding of commodity fetishism in the corporate‐organic foodscape, and speaks more generally to the need for sophisticated understandings of the complex relationship between social movement innovation and market adaptation.

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There are conflicting observations of the effects of fatigue on the sensitivity of large diameter Ia afferents. Our goal was to characterize any fatigue-related changes in the spinal reflex pathways during fatigue. Manipulation of the Ia afferent response by vibration and tendon tap, in which the motor neuron pool is modulated by both short- and long-loop activation from muscle spindles, were elicited before and after a fatigue task. The fatigue task consisted of intermittent submaximal and maximal voluntary contractions (MVCs). Percent voluntary activation fell from 98.75% MVC to 80.92% MVC following the fatigue task as measured by the twitch interpolation technique. Voluntary contractions of the same force profile as the force produced by 30 s of vibration were produced by having participants (n = 10) follow the trajectory on a computer monitor, before and after the fatigue task. Recruitment thresholds (RTs) of voluntarily activated units showed no change during fatigue; however, units activated via the reflex pathway were recruited approximately 30% sooner during fatigue (P < 0.05). The ratio of the electrical-to-mechanical response of the tendon tap increased significantly with fatigue. Our findings of decreased RTs in response to vibration and increased EMG activity during the tendon tap following the fatigue task indicate that Ia afferent input to the motoneuron pool was increased. The decrease in MVC force indicates that during this time the descending drive was compromised. These results provide evidence that the gain of the gamma loop is increased during fatigue, indicating possible peripheral neural compensation to the motor neuron pool in order to preserve force output.

Integrated water resources management (IWRM) is advocated by international and expert communities as the most viable approach to achieving sustainable freshwater management. Watersheds are often viewed as the preferred management units. There is increasing recognition, however, that socio-political and watershed boundaries do not coincide, and where they are used for management purposes, these boundaries are constructed through processes of political contestation. Key informants from various agencies and sectors associated with water resources management in Ontario (where watershed-based management has been in place for decades), Nova Scotia (currently developing a comprehensive water resources management strategy), and the Government of Canada were interviewed: to explore the links between IWRM and watershed management; barriers to IWRM; elements essential for IWRM to work effectively; the appropriate scale of watershed management units; and the degree of cross-scale interactions between agencies and stakeholders. Four main themes emerged around capacity, coordination and participation, scale of implementation, and education. To achieve IWRM, particular attention must be paid to existing local circumstances and resources, situated within formalized provincial and national frameworks.Resumé : La gestion intégrée des ressources hydriques (GIRH) est préconisée par les communautés internationaux et expertes comme étant l'approche la plus viable pour atteindre la gestion soutenable de l'eau douce. Les bassins hydrographiques sont fréquemment considérés comme les unités de gestion favorisées. Mais il y a une augmentation de reconnaissance que les frontières sociopolitiques et hydrographiques ne coïncident pas, et là où employées pour la gestion, les frontières hydrographiques sont construites à travers des processus de contestation politique. Des informateurs principaux de divers agences et secteurs associés avec la gestion des ressources hydriques en Ontario (où la gestion basée sur les bassins hydrographiques est en place depuis des décennies), la Nouvelle-Écosse (développe actuellement une stratégie compréhensive pour la gestion des ressources hydriques), et le gouvernement du Canada ont été interviewés pour obtenir une compréhension : des liens entre la GIRH et la gestion des bassins hydrographiques; les obstacles à la GIRH, les éléments essentiels pour le fonctionnement efficace de la GIRH, l'échelle convenable pour la gestion par bassin hydrographique; et l'étendue des interactions entre les agences et les parties prenantes. Quatre thèmes principaux ont fait surface sur la capacité, la

The market for bottled water is growing and increasingly segmented. How do we explain not just the willingness to pay for a substance (water) that is almost free but also the increasing discernment in a drink generally considered tasteless? We argue that bottled water market segmentation is a leading edge of processes of water commodification, associated with the crisis of Fordism and rise of consumerist capitalism, where the assertion of status through commodity consumption is increasingly necessary. The extensive Ray's & Stark water menu is analyzed to show how the taste for bottled waters is cultivated. In the menu, references to gustatory sensation are limited. Instead, the tastefulness of water inheres in the distance from anthropogenic influence, made visible through scientific (geological) discourses. The tension between the desire to consume unmediated nature and the scientific abstraction necessary to recognize it reveals the social character of the taste for bottled waters. The highly refined sense of taste that the water menu's readers are presumed to have is a reflection of consumerist capitalism's distinctive ways of reproducing socioeconomic inequality and metabolizing non-human nature.

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