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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Durant, Robert F., 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2007.
Colección:Public management and change.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.