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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452192503321

Autore

Durant Robert F. <1949->

Titolo

The greening of the U.S. military [[electronic resource] ] : environmental policy, national security, and organizational change / / Robert F. Durant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Georgetown University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-58901-446-4

1-4356-2977-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Collana

Public management and change series

Disciplina

363.72/870973

Soggetti

Military bases - Environmental aspects - United States

Environmental responsibility - Government policy - United States

Military privileges and immunities - United States

Environmental policy - United States

Organizational change - United States

Electronic books.

United States Armed Forces Environmental aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 châteaux generalship -- Avoiding the harder right in the post-Clinton era? -- Lessons for practice and theory.

Sommario/riassunto

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