Speaking Green with a Southern Accent

Gerald Andrews Emison is associate professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Mississippi State University. John C. Morris is professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Public Administration at Old Dominion University.

• 1 List of Tables and Figures2 Acknowledgements3 IntroductionChapter 4 1.Tradition and Adaptation: The Post-Modern Environmental Management SystemChapter 5 2.State Commitment to Environmental Quality in the South: A Regional AnalysisChapter 6 3.Ozone Air Quality Management and Southeastern DistinctivenessChapter 7 4.Dirty Water, Clean Water: Infrastructure Funding and State Discretion in Southern StatesChapter 8 5.Water Wars in the South: Considering the ACT and ACF Interstate CompactsChapter 9 6.Collaboration in Environmental Policy Implementation: Brownfields Programs in North Carolina and FloridaChapter 10 7.Agricultural Workers and Environmental Justice: An Assessment of the Federal Worker Protection StandardsChapter 11 8.A State Government Faces Environmental Management Change: Mississippi's Department of Environmental QualityChapter 12 9.Collaborative Management within a Traditionalistic Political Culture: An Unconventional Approach to Resolving "Wicked" ProblemsChapter 13 10.The Biofuel Policy in the American Southeast: How Will Southern States Manage the Potential?Chapter 14 11.Distinctively South: Lessons for the Future of Environmental Management and Policy Implementation15 About the Contributors

Emison and Morris's book is a thoughtful, timely piece critically needed in the classroom. In the wake of the challenge of disasters both natural and man-made, it helps to explain the uniquely 'Southern' policy approach. It is relevant to student focus, stylish in delivery and superb in its treatment of a crucial subject.