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The Greening of the U.S. Military - Environmental Policy, National Security, and Organizational Change (Paperback)
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The Greening of the U.S. Military - Environmental Policy, National Security, and Organizational Change (Paperback)
Series: Public Management and Change series
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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 ongoing struggle to build an environmentally sensitive
culture within the post-Cold War military. Through over 100
interviews and thousands of pages of documents, reports, and trade
newsletter accounts, he offers a telling tale of political,
bureaucratic, and intergovernmental combat over the pace, scope,
and methods of applying environmental and natural resource laws
while ensuring military readiness. He then discerns from these
clashes over principle, competing values, and narrow self-interest
a theoretical framework for studying and understanding
organizational change in public organizations. From Dick Cheney's
days as Defense Secretary under President George H.W. Bush to
William Cohen's Clinton-era-tenure and on to Donald Rumsfeld's
Pentagon, the battle over "greening" the military has been one with
high-stakes consequences for both national defense and public
health, safety, and the environment. Durant's polity-centered
perspective and arguments will evoke needed scrutiny, debate, and
dialogue over these issues in environmental, military,
policymaking, and academic circles.
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