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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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Since 1985, a new approach to environmental management hasemerged among innovative organizations and regulators. It drawson broader efforts to induce organizational learning to improve pro-ductionand management processes on a continuing basis. The newapproach views environmental management not simply in terms ofrequirements to comply with specific rules and regulations in placetoday but rather in terms of ways to adjust product designs, produc-tionand delivery processes, and organizational behaviors over timeto cut the total social costs associated with environmental emissionsand, where possible, turn environmental issues to strategic advan-tagefor the organizations involved.The Department of Defense (DoD) has participated in this newapproach and wants to continue its role as a proactive innovator,seeking to improve the nation's environment in ways that are com-patiblewith its primary responsibility to provide for the nationaldefense. To maintain its awareness of analogous efforts amongcommercial firms, the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary ofDefense for Environmental Security asked RAND to review new envi-ronmentalmanagement programs in the commercial sector relevantto weapon system design, provision of central logistics services, inte-grationof different defense activities on installations, and manage-mentof cleanup programs.Early work on the project revealed that DoD's general policies onenvironmental management were compatible with policies beingdeveloped by leading firms with activities analogous to those in thesefour areas. In response, the deputy under secretary asked RAND tofocus on effective implementation of such environmental manage-ment policies. To do this, we initiated case studies of environmentalmanagement in two leading firms relevant to each of the four policyareas above. These case studies have allowed us to examineenvironmental policies and to understand how specificorganizations have integrated these policies with their broader cor-poratecultures. We have found that such integration lies at the heartof successful implementation of environmental management poli-cies.We have documented our work to date in the following: Resetar,Camm, and Drezner (1998); Drezner and Camm (1999); Camm(2001); Lachman, Camm, and Resetar (2001). This report summa-rizesour findings from the secondary literature and the case studiesdocumented in the reports above.This research was conducted for the Office of the Deputy UnderSecretary of Defense for Environmental Security within the Acquisi-tionand Technology Policy Center of RAND's National DefenseResearch Institute, a federally funded research and developmentcenter sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the JointStaff, the Unified Commands, and the defense agencies.
Implementing Proactive Environmental Management : Lessons Learned from Best Commercial Practice (2001)
Implementing Proactive Environmental Management: Lessons Learned from Best Commercial Practice (2001),Frank Camm,RAND Corporation,0833030159,Business/Economics,Defense contracts,Dept. of Defense,Environmental Science,Environmental Studies,Environmental aspects,Environmental management,Procurement,Reference,United States,United States.,Applied ecology,Military life & institutions,Non-Classifiable,USA
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