Authors:David E. Mosher, Beth E. Lachman, Michael D. Gree
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: planning, post, conflict, operations, contingency, army, environmental, considerations, warriors
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0833043188
ISBN-13: 9780833043184

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

Author: Benedictine Sisters of Erie Pennsylvalnia
Publisher: Earth Force, Inc.
Keywords: benedictine, communities, audit, environmental, earth, listening
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 1997-04-21
eBookDB-ID: B0014LGC3I

This book is relevant to an audience far greater than the 300+ Benedictine monasteries and their large associated communities in urban and rural Latin America, Africa, Asia and Oceania. Indeed, adaptations are being planned for African Muslim communities and for Buddhist communities in Asia. Throughout their history the Benedictines have had a close connection with land and its stewardship. As written in the Preface: "For Benedictines, an environmental audit is not a fad. It is not a social nicety. It is certainly not an option. It is simply a contemporary manifestation of an ancient commitmen

Authors:Michael Toman, Aimee E. Curtright, David S. Ortiz
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: environmental, trade, offs, economic, fuels, fossil, based, unconventional
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0833045644
ISBN-13: 9780833045645

Both high import payments for petroleum motor fuels and concerns regarding emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are motivating interest in possible fuel substitutes. Petroleum products derived from conventional crude oil constitute more than 50 percent of end-use energy deliveries in the United States and more than 95 percent of all energy used in the U.S. transportation sector. Almost 60 percent of liquid fuels are imported. Emissions from the consumption of petroleum account for 44 percent of the nation’s CO2 emissions, with approximately 33 percent of national CO2 emissions resulting fro

Authors:James T. Bartis, Frank Camm, David S. Ortiz
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: policy, issues, prospects, coal, liquid, fuels, producing
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0833045113
ISBN-13: 9780833045119

Record-high world oil prices have prompted renewed interest in producing liquid fuels from coal. The United States leads the world in recoverable coal reserves. Moreover, the technology for converting coal to liquid fuels already exists, and production costs appear competitive at world oil prices well below current levels. Yet, despite its promise, private investment in coal-to-liquids (CTL) technology is being impeded by three uncertainties: where oil prices are heading, what it actually costs to produce coal-derived fuels, and how greenhouse-gas emissions will be regulated. A domestic CTL in

Authors:David G. Groves, Debra Knopman, Robert J. Lempert
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: inland, workshops, empire, utilities, agency, summary, managers, climate, uncertainty, change, water, resource, presenting
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0833043986
ISBN-13: 9780833043986

Water-resource managers have long strived to meet their goals of system reliability and environmental protection in the face of many uncertainties, including demographic and economic forecasts, intrinsic weather variability, and short-term climate change induced by El Ni

Authors:Beth E. Lachman, Anny Wong, Susan A. Resetar
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: initiative, buffer, installation, encroachment, protection, environmental, line, assessment, dod, readiness, thin
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 083304172X
ISBN-13: 9780833041722

Over the past few decades, military installations have experienced diminishing open space near their borders from suburban sprawl and other developments. Such encroachment pressures limit the ability to conduct mission-essential testing and training. Such development can also destroy or displace native plant and animal species, the result being that military installations become islands of refuge for threatened and endangered species, which can also restrict an installation

Author: Jacqueline MacDonald Carmen Mendez
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: alternative, protocols, implications, costs, ordnance, cleanup, unexploded
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2005
ISBN-10: 0833037749
ISBN-13: 9780833037749

With continued military downsizing and base closures, cleanup of unexploded ordnance (UXO) at former weapons ranges has become one of the most costly environmental problems the military faces. This study examines cost estimation for UXO remediation conducted at closed military installations, the difficulties of accurately estimating cleanup costs, and the major effects that different cleanup requirements and methods can have on cost. It assesses previous estimates of UXO cleanup costs and evaluates the strengths and limitations of the military