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The greening of the U.S. military : environmental policy, national security, and organizational change / Robert F. Durant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Durant, Robert F., 1949-
- Series:
- Public management and change.
- Public management and change series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Military bases--Environmental aspects--United States.
- Military bases.
- Environmental responsibility--Government policy--United States.
- Environmental responsibility.
- Military privileges and immunities--United States.
- Military privileges and immunities.
- Environmental policy--United States.
- Environmental policy.
- Organizational change--United States.
- Organizational change.
- United States--Armed Forces--Environmental aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (317 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Greening of the US military
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- By the Cold War's end, U.S. military bases harbored nearly 20,000 toxic waste sites. All told, cleaning the approximately 27 million acres is projected to cost hundreds of billions of dollars. And yet while progress has been made, efforts to integrate environmental and national security concerns into the military's operations have proven a daunting and intrigue-filled task that has fallen short of professed goals in the post-Cold War era.In The Greening of the U.S. Military, Robert F. Durant delves into this too-little understood world of defense environmental policy to uncover the epic and on
- Contents:
- A world apart?
- Greening, national security, and the postmodern military
- About-face at the Pentagon?
- Base cleanups, sovereign impunity, and the expansion of the beaten zone
- Guns, dogs, fences, and base transfers
- Missiles, mayhem, and the munitions rule
- Natural resources management, military training, and the greening of the drone zone
- Safety, security, and chemical weapons demilitarization
- Pollution prevention, energy conservation, and the perils of chateaux generalship
- Avoiding the harder right in the post-Clinton era?
- Lessons for practice and theory.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781589014466
- 1589014464
- 9781435629776
- 1435629779
- OCLC:
- 652626235
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