Sustainability and National Security

responsibilities and stated all members of the depart- ment are responsible to manage resources and energy consumption (DOD 2008 ...

emptions and purchase only the high-recycled content paper, the market would become more stable because DOD is such a dominant c ...

with their local communities, strengthening those ties and in some cases providing economic benefits to the local area. These ef ...

ment will help identify these opportunities to act with a more complete and long-term view (see section on life cycle assessment ...

with stories about military efforts addressing energy issues. There is consensus among these documents that the military will ne ...

tunities to work closely with local communities and to promote “net-zero energy” both on and off post. The DOD is also pursuing ...

studies), they contain unique attributes. Perhaps most relevant is all life depends on water. There are alter- native energy sou ...

or service, by: compiling an inventory of relevant energy and material inputs and environmental releases; evaluating the potent ...

tal, health, and cost results. The Army Environmental Policy Institute (AEPI 2009) report, Green Chemistry and Engineering Oppor ...

economic and social factors. This is especially relevant in assessing security issues related to particular prod- ucts, material ...

society. Yet, this size has also created a bureaucratic behemoth with at least four heads. By definition, be- coming sustainable ...

surprising, as the military has often been at the fore- front of significant societal and technological change (e.g. racial inte ...

at cross-purposes, or duplicating efforts, will not meet sustainability criteria. If not funded adequately, then sustainability ...

Butts, Kent H. 1999. The Case for DOD involvement in environmental security. In Contested grounds: Se- curity and conflict in th ...

Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security. The U.S. Textile and Apparel Industries: An Industrial Base Assessment. ...

Drucker, Merritt. 1989. The military commander’s responsibility for the environment. Environmental Ethics 11: 135-152. Durant, R ...

Hutton, John P. and William Solis. 2010. Defense Ac- quisitions: Observations on the Department of De- fense Service Contract In ...

Nature Serve. 2004. U.S. military lands are habitat for hundreds of species at risk, study finds (press release). http://www.nat ...

Stine, Rudy and Kristan Cockerill-Kafka. 1992. U.S. Army environmental management good news sto- ries. Army Environmental Policy ...

Sustainable Security and Fragile States Steven Hearne, Jeremey Alcorn, and William Goran 4 ...