| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 223 pages) : color illustrations, color maps |
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"Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and appendices. |
| Summary |
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's operations. In 2003, DoD created the Readiness and Environmental Protection Initiative (REPI) to help address such encroachment pressures. The REPI program helps installations implement compatible land use partnering projects with state and local governments and non-governmental organizations to protect non-military land, which helps relieve installation encroachment pressures. In this monograph, RAND researchers assessed the effectiveness of the REPI projects. The authors also identify the main causes of encroachment; detail the benefits, both to the military and local communities, of buffering areas near installations with REPI projects; and provide recommendations for how to improve REPI's effectiveness. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Understanding the Encroachment Threat -- How Encroachment Is Being Addressed -- Methodology and Criteria for Assessing the Accomplishments of the Buffering Activities -- Assessing Accomplishments Across All the Buffering Projects -- Findings -- Recommendations to Improve Military Conservation Buffering -- Appendix A: The Importance of Biodiversity -- Appendix B: An Assessment of Eglin AFB's Buffering Activities -- Appendix C: An Assessment of Fort Carson's Buffering Activities -- Appendix D: An Assessment of Fort Stewart's Buffering Activities -- Appendix E: An Assessment of MCAS Beaufort's Buffering Activities -- Appendix F: An Assessment of NAS Fallon's Buffering Activities -- Appendix G: An Assessment of NAS Whiting Field's Buffering Activities -- Appendix H: Background Information on Selected Buffering Projects -- Appendix I: The Land Price Trend Analysis. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
United States -- Armed Forces -- Environmental aspects.
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Military bases -- Environmental aspects -- United States.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
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HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
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Armed Forces -- Environmental aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00814597
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Military bases -- Environmental aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01020996
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Added Author |
Wong, Anny, 1968-
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Resetar, Susan A., 1961-
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National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
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Rand Corporation.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lachman, Beth E., 1960- Thin green line. Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corp., 2007 9780833041722 083304172X (DLC) 2007016369 (OCoLC)123539478 |
| ISBN |
9780833044501 (electronic bk.) |
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0833044508 (electronic bk.) |
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9780833041722 (paperback;) (alk. paper) |
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083304172X (paperback;) (alk. paper) |
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