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Book Synopsis Global Approaches to Environmental Management on Military Training Ranges by : Tracey J. Temple
Download or read book Global Approaches to Environmental Management on Military Training Ranges written by Tracey J. Temple and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an insight into the global practices for environmental management of military live-fire training ranges by combining scientific research with practical solutions to ensure continued training capability. The book is divided into four parts: the first provides background information necessary to understand the scientific principles behind environmental management; the second comprises methodologies for the environmental risk assessment of explosives and munitions; the third collates case studies and innovative management techniques that have been applied to reduce remediation costs; while the final section considers the design of 'greener or insensitive munitions' to reduce environmental impact. The book is an essential reference guide for those with a responsibility for environmental management of military training ranges, and who are required to ensure sustainable long-term training capability.
Book Synopsis Global Approaches to Environmental Management on Military Training Ranges by : Tracey J. Temple
Download or read book Global Approaches to Environmental Management on Military Training Ranges written by Tracey J. Temple and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an insight into the global practices for environmental management of military live-fire training ranges by combining scientific research with practical solutions to ensure continued training capability. The book is divided into four parts: the first provides background information necessary to understand the scientific principles behind environmental management; the second comprises methodologies for the environmental risk assessment of explosives and munitions; the third collates case studies and innovative management techniques that have been applied to reduce remediation costs; while the final section considers the design of 'greener or insensitive munitions' to reduce environmental impact. The book is an essential reference guide for those with a responsibility for environmental management of military training ranges, and who are required to ensure sustainable long-term training capability.
Book Synopsis Bombing for Biodiversity by : Richard Aleksander Zentelis
Download or read book Bombing for Biodiversity written by Richard Aleksander Zentelis and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military training areas (MTAs) cover an estimated 2-3 percent of the Earth's terrestrial environment, occurring in all major biomes. These areas are important supplementary sites for biodiversity conservation, with the potential to increase the global protected area network by approximately 12-15 percent if recognised for their environmental values and managed appropriately. Despite the significant area that MTAs occupy, and their potential contribution to biodiversity protection globally, there is a paucity of research and understanding of their environmental values, and how best to integrate management of military training and environmental values. My research focussed on understanding and integrating management of the military training and environmental values found on MTAs. The first part of my research focussed on understanding the military training and environmental values of MTAs. This research highlighted that only limited empirical data exist on the environmental values of these areas. An investigation of the Australian MTA management framework revealed that management of military training and environmental values are not integrated. Second, I focussed on developing a set of management principles to guide the management of MTAs. As MTAs are unique, with no other land management unit being subject to similar types of impacts, the principles combine existing and novel approaches for the management of these areas. Central to the design of the principles are two adaptive management loops that integrate military training and environmental management outcomes. This is the first time that two adaptive management loops have been used to manage the one land use activity. The final part of my research focussed on 1. Developing a land management model and management prescriptions for MTAs that integrate the management of the military training and environmental values of these areas, allowing for improved management outcomes that are transparent and accountable, and, 2. Providing guidance, in the absence of further detailed environmental information, on how best to manage military training-related environmental disturbance. The land management model consists of two management equations and a four-part management condition test that, when appropriately applied, should result in improved management outcomes for both the military training and environmental values of MTAs. The new approach allows for the assessment of different MTA land management configurations prior to on-ground implementation. The model also makes provision for the incorporation of management costs. Guidance on how best to manage military training-related environmental disturbance was developed by initially investigating the causes for military training-related disturbance and simulating military training-related environmental disturbance at different range usage rates under a typical range rotation use strategies. These results were compared to estimated ecosystem recovery rates from training activities. We found that even at relatively low usage rates, random allocation and random spatial use of training ranges within an MTA resulted in environmental degradation. To avoid large scale environmental degradation, we developed a decision-making tool that details the best method for managing training-related disturbance by determining how training activities can be allocated to training ranges. Collectively, the research in this thesis has resulted in the development of a new approach to the management of MTAs that allows for better integration of the military training and environmental values.
Book Synopsis Integrated Facility Environmental Management Approaches by : Beth E. Lachman
Download or read book Integrated Facility Environmental Management Approaches written by Beth E. Lachman and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2001 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commercial facilities have discovered that pursuing integrated, facility wide approaches to environmental management is good for the environment and makes good business sense. Direct benefits can include cost savings, increased operational flexibility, and improved public image. But despite the benefits, implementation can be difficult, as Department of Defense (DoD) installations have discovered while trying such integrated approaches. Commercial facilities similar to DoD installations offer insights about how to implement integrated approaches successfully. Demonstrated success factors include getting and sustaining high-level leadership support for change until change is complete, which will take time; implementing an effective environmental management system, often based on an international environmental management standard, ISO 14001, throughout the organization; establishing proactive environmental goals and activities with clear relationships to the organization's core values and mission; training and motivating personnel; using creative environmental assessment and priority setting techniques; developing good relationships with all stakeholders. The commercial lessons offered here can help DoD and other organizations implement integrated facility wide approaches to environmental anagement.
Book Synopsis Soil Remediation Science and Technology by : Jose Julio Ortega-Calvo
Download or read book Soil Remediation Science and Technology written by Jose Julio Ortega-Calvo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Environmental Characterization of Military Training Ranges for Munitions-related Contaminants: Understanding and Minimizing the Environmental Impacts of Live-fire Training by : Sonia Thiboutot
Download or read book Environmental Characterization of Military Training Ranges for Munitions-related Contaminants: Understanding and Minimizing the Environmental Impacts of Live-fire Training written by Sonia Thiboutot and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Implementing Proactive Environmental Management by : Frank A. Camm
Download or read book Implementing Proactive Environmental Management written by Frank A. Camm and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2001 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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Book Synopsis Environmental Laws by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works
Download or read book Environmental Laws written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Asset Prices and Monetary Policy by : Maria Socorro Gochoco-Bautista
Download or read book Asset Prices and Monetary Policy written by Maria Socorro Gochoco-Bautista and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do housing and equity booms significantly raise the probability of extremely bad outcomes at the margin? This study addresses this question for a group of 8 East Asian countries. The main findings are the following: (i) Asset price booms in housing and equity markets, either separately or jointly but especially in housing, significantly raise the probability at the margin that (a) the real output gap will be in the left tail of its distribution, in whichoutput is significantly below trend, and (b) the price-level gap will be in the right tail of its distribution, in which the price level is significantly above trend. At the margin, the risk of the occurrence of these particular tail events due to asset price booms is largely asymmetric and doesnot apply to the tails of good outcomes; and (ii) Expected real output andprice level outcomes that are either obtained without conditioning on assetprice booms or are obtained conditional on asset price booms using the normal approximation underestimate the risk of tail events and lead to less pessimistic but misleading inferences. One implication for monetary policy is that an approach that is ex-ante more compatible with risk management may be appropriate.
Book Synopsis U.S. Army Environmental Strategy Into the 21st Century by : United States. Department of the Army
Download or read book U.S. Army Environmental Strategy Into the 21st Century written by United States. Department of the Army and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Green Warriors written by David E. Mosher and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent experiences in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Balkans have highlighted the importance of environmental considerations. These range from protecting soldier health and disposing of hazardous waste to building water supply systems and other activities that help achieve national goals in the post-conflict phase of contingency operations. The Army has become increasingly involved with environmental issues in every contingency operation and must be better prepared to deal with them. This study assesses whether existing policy, doctrine, and guidance adequately address environmental activities in post-conflict military operations and reconstruction. Findings are based on reviews of top-level policy and doctrine, analysis of operational experience, extensive interviews with diverse Army personnel, and a review of operational documentation and literature. From these sources, a database of 111 case studies was created. The research showed that environmental concerns can have far-reaching and significant impacts on the Army, both direct and indirect, especially in terms of cost, current operations, soldier health, diplomatic relations, reconstruction activities, and the ultimate success of the operation or the broader mission. Some evidence suggests that environmental problems may have even contributed to insurgency in Iraq. Recommendations include updating current policy and doctrine to fully address environmental considerations in contingency operations; ensuring that contractors are carefully selected and managed; and transmitting proactive field environmental practices and lessons throughout the Army.
Book Synopsis War and the Environment by : Rosemay Rayfuse
Download or read book War and the Environment written by Rosemay Rayfuse and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters in this volume have their origins in papers presented at a Workshop held at Lund University in Sweden. The Workshop gathered together experts from Europe, the United States and Australia, including leading academics as well as representatives from the ICRC, the Swedish, Norwegian and Danish Red Cross Societies and the Swedish and Norwegian governments, to examine the relevance and adequacy of the existing regime for environmental protection during armed conflict as well as the ability of other international legal mechanisms to contribute to the amelioration of damage to the environment arising as a result of or in relation to armed conflict. The book, like the Workshop, takes as its starting point the existing IHL regime for the protection of the environment during armed conflict and goes on to explore the application of other legal regimes that may be relevant to protection of the environment both during armed conflict and, as in the broader context envisaged by the ILC, in relation to armed conflict. As this thought-provoking volume demonstrates, a vast range of issues, actors and legal regimes must now be considered and some pro-active and imaginative research and thinking brought to bear in any consideration of this ever-important topic. Some papers appeared previously in a special issue of the Nordic Journal of International Law.
Book Synopsis Natural Environments for Testing and Training: Developing Geographic Analogs for an Expeditionary Army by :
Download or read book Natural Environments for Testing and Training: Developing Geographic Analogs for an Expeditionary Army written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 21st century Army will be engaged in numerous joint and expeditionary operations throughout the five regional Combatant Commanders areas of responsibility. Currently, Army forces are deployed globally in more than 120 countries. These regions contain a wide range of natural environments that present unique operational challenges to soldiers and equipment. The distribution of climate, terrain and other environmental factors, and their potential effects on Army operations, must be fully understood. There is a direct geographical and physical relationship between where the Army trains soldiers and tests equipment at U.S. installations to where it will deploy its forces. The conduct of any military enterprise is conditioned by the character of the area of operations--the military operating environment (Palka and Galgano, 2005). Military history and military geography, as well as lessons learned from current operations, provide ample evidence that understanding and adapting to the natural environment is a critical component of operational success. A revised framework for understanding the natural environments of operational areas, and their relationships to U.S. training and testing installations, is presented. This framework the Global Military Operating Environments (GMOE) is developed from a worldwide ecoregional classification system that provides a logical and scientifically based approach to characterizing the spatial distribution of climates and associated environmental factors. The GMOE framework allows for comparison of operational environments across the globe to those found on U.S. Army installations where training of soldiers and testing of equipment take place.
Book Synopsis The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention by : Stuart Casey-Maslen
Download or read book The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention written by Stuart Casey-Maslen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated commentary on the 1997 Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention addresses international law and State practice on anti-personnel mines under the treaty. It describes the use of anti-personnel mines through to the present day, the destruction of landmine stockpiles, and mine clearance in every affected nation.
Book Synopsis Environmental Management Training: Supporting environmental management training materials by : International Labour Organisation
Download or read book Environmental Management Training: Supporting environmental management training materials written by International Labour Organisation and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1986 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Environmental Management Training by : International Labour Office
Download or read book Environmental Management Training written by International Labour Office and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Draft Terms of Reference for the Strategic Assessment of the Environmental Management Processes, Procedures and Systems for the Conduct of Major Military Training Exercises by :
Download or read book Draft Terms of Reference for the Strategic Assessment of the Environmental Management Processes, Procedures and Systems for the Conduct of Major Military Training Exercises written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
