UID:
almafu_9959241327902883
Format:
1 online resource (317 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-58901-446-4
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1-4356-2977-9
Series Statement:
Public management and change series
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-58901-153-8
Language:
English
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