Natures Revenge or Benchmarking Basics

Nature's Revenge

Author: Josee Johnston

"The social and political contest over the meaning of the term "sustainable development" is vital. Those who win will dictate the agenda and the policies around future environmental issues. This book proposes a radical definition of sustainability, reclaiming the word from the rhetoric typically used by corporations and governments to facilitate unrelenting economic growth and the notion of "business as usual."" The authors base their approach on the classic notion of the "commons." This key concept in environmental circles traditionally refers to commonly held, or shared, rights and property such as water, air, and other resources necessary for human survival. In this book the idea of the commons is also extended to include what the authors call the "social commons," encompassing areas such as community knowledge and culture.

Table of Contents:

1	Politicizing exhaustion : eco-social crisis and the geographic challenge for cosmopolitans	13
2	Who cares about the commons?	39
3	Electricity restructuring's dirty secret : the environment	73
4	Wet dreams : ideology and the debates over Canadian water exports	97
5	Corporate social responsibility and codes of conduct : the fox guarding the chicken coop?	117
6	The nature of local reach	137
7	Leave it in the ground! : eco-social alliances for sustainability	155
8	Local participation and sustainability : a study of three rural communities in Oaxaca, Southern Mexico	183
9	Toward a movement of multiple scales : the Canadian Jubilee 2000 Initiative	203
10	Beyond the local and the global : scales of resistance, repression, and sustainability	225
11	Afterword : only sustain ... the environment, "anti-globalization," and the runaway bicycle	245
12	Conclusion : moving from a vengeful nature towards sustainability pathways	275

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Benchmarking Basics: Looking for a Better Way

Author: James Gordon Gordon Patterson

This book will teach you how benchmarking is used to improve performance, set quality objectives, and identify and adapt to best processes.