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

• Autore: Durant Robert F. <1949->
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : Georgetown University Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (317 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.72/870973
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: United States Armed Forces Environmental aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Altri titoli varianti: Greening of the US military
• Titolo autorizzato: The greening of the U.S. military
• ISBN: 1-58901-446-4; 1-4356-2977-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452192503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Public management and change.