"Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-67).
Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Analytic approach -- Ch. 3. Central policy challenge: integrate environmental missions and functions with core missions and functions -- Ch. 4. Central implementation challenge 1: there are no silver bullets when every situation is different -- Ch. 5. Central implementation challenge 2: radical organizational change takes a long time -- Ch. 6. Recommendation: use formal quality frameworks to implement an integration policy.
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Like many large organizations, the Department of Defense (DoD) faces a serious challenge as it attempts to balance its efforts to pursue 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. The authors first summarize analyses of how commercial firms have implemented proactive approaches in areas of environmental management and 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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