Greening of the U.s. Military - Environmental Policy, National Security, and Organizational Change

Klappentext In The Greening of the U.S. Military! Robert F. Durant uncovers 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. Durant's polity-centered perspective and arguments will evoke needed scrutiny! debate! and dialogue over these issues in environmental! military! policymaking! and academic circles. Zusammenfassung By the Cold War's end! US military bases harbored nearly 20!000 toxic waste sites. Cleaning the approximately 27 million acres is projected to cost hundreds of billions of dollars. This work delves into this world of defense environmental policy to reveal the struggle to build an environmentally sensitive culture within the post-Cold War military.

Product details

• Authors: Robert F. Durant, Durant Robert F.
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.05.2007
• EAN: 9781589011533
• ISBN: 978-1-58901-153-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 248 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Public Management and Change Series; Public Management and Change; Public Management and Change series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Military / United States, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Military Policy, Warfare & defence, Pollution & threats to the environment, United States of America, USA, Warfare and defence, Central / national / federal government policies, Pollution and threats to the environment, Central government policies