In this report the authors summarize and then give proposals on how the Department of Defense (DoD) may implement proactive environmental management to address the challenges of balancing its efforts to pursue core military, financial, and environmental goals successfully.
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Jeff Drezner (M.S. Environmental Policy Analysis, UC Davis) is a Social Scientist at RAND. Research interests include Energy Policy, Environmental Policy, International Environmental Policy, Technology Policy, Defense Acquisition, and Industrial Base Capabilities.
Beth E. Lachman (M.S., Operations Research, Stanford University) is a policy analyst in RAND's Washington office. Her expertise includes systems analysis of environmental problems, environmental science and technology policy, sustainable development policy, mathematical modeling and GIS analysis of urban systems.
Susan Resetar (M.S., Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley) is an operations research specialist at RAND whose research focus includes environmental and technology issues.
The authors propose an approach to implementation based on total quality management, recommending that DOD use commercially developed TQM templates, which have been customized for application to sophisticated environmental management systems, to define and monitor the details of this implementation effort.
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