Environmental Management in Design Lessons from Volvo and Hewlett- Packard for the Department of Defense

摘要

A new approach to environmental management is rapidly evolving in a number of large, successful commercial firms. The Department of Defense (DoD) has adopted environmental management policies very similar to those found in these organizations. The Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Environmental Security asked RAND to study how leading commercial firms had implemented their policies and suggest what DoD could do to improve its own implementation departmentwide. This report focuses on best commercial experience relevant to one key policy issue in defense environmental management- designing new weapon systems to have improved military capability and cost-effective environmental profiles over their lifetimes.