Implementing Proactive Environmental Management: Lessons Learned from Best Commercial Practice - Softcover

Camm, Frank ; Drezner, Jeffrey A.; Lachman, Beth E.; Resetar, Susan A.

9780833030153: Implementing Proactive Environmental Management: Lessons Learned from Best Commercial Practice

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ISBN 10: 0833030159 ISBN 13: 9780833030153

Publisher: RAND Corporation, 2001

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Like many large organizations, the Department of Defense (DoD) faces a serious challenge trying to balance core military, financial, and environmental goals. Over the last 15 years, DoD and other large, complex, global organizations have turned increasingly to proactive environmental management to balance such competing goals more successfully. Proactive approaches give organizations strategic flexibility but are difficult to implement. The authors first summarize how commercial firms have implemented proactive environmental management in weapon system design, logistics, base management, and environmental cleanup, then draw implications for DoD's environmental management efforts in these areas. The authors then propose an approach based on total quality management to define and monitor the details of this implementation effort.

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About the Author

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.

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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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