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The greening of the U.S. military : environmental policy, national security, and organizational change /
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 concern...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Georgetown University Press,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Public management and change.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 298 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781435629776 1435629779 9781589014466 1589014464 |