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“We need to consider managing [the environment] to operational requirements, not just regulatory requirements.” This observation from Air Force Deputy Assistant Secretary Maureen Koetz in the autumn 2003 issue of FFEJ highlights the fundamental challenge facing military environmental programs as they attempt to support transforming missions. It has been said that “change is the Army's steady state; the Army is always in transition.” To ensure that U.S. military forces can continue to perform their current and future missions without being constrained by environmental issues, the current “stovepiped” installation planning processes for infrastructure, budget, military training and deployment, and environment must become interdependent and integrated. Integrated planning is inherently tied to the concept of living within the limits of available resources, both natural and manmade. This article highlights a developing approach to resource and planning processes at Army installations. The Army Installation Sustainability Program focuses long‐term resource planning and execution on an installation's ability to support the Future Force and coexist with the communities that grow on its borders. The authors discuss the overall process and specific accomplishments of Fort Bragg's sustainability program and demonstrate how this paradigm shift toward a sustainability management system is successfully helping the installation staff prepare for the future. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. |
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