Speaking green with a Southern accent : environmental management and innovation in the South / edited by Gerald Andrews Emison and John C. Morris.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tradition and adaptation: the postmodern environmental management system / Gerald Andrews Emison and John C. Morris -- State commitment to environmental quality in the south: a regional analysis / David A. Breaux...[and others] -- Ozone air quality management and southeastern distinctiveness / Gerald Andrews Emison -- Dirty water, clean water: infrastructure funding and state discretion in southern states / John C. Morris -- Water wars in the south: considering the ACt and ACF interstate compacts / James Newman -- Collaboration in environmental policy implementation: brownfields programs in North Carolina and Florida / Deborah R. Gallagher -- Agricultural workers and environmental justice: an assessment of the federal worker protection standards / Celeste Murphy-Green -- A state government faces environmental management change: Mississippi's Department of Environmental Quality / Gerald Andrews Emison -- Collaborative environmental management within a traditionalistic political culture: an unconventional approach to resolving "wicked" problems / Madeleine W. McNamara -- The biofuel policy in the American southeast: how till the southern states manage the potential? / Erin Homes -- Distinctively south: lessons for the future of environmental management and policy implementation / John C. Morris and Gerald Andrews Emison.

This book studies Southern environmental policy and politics in order to understand the concrete realities of the Southeast and extend those realities' understanding to other regions of the country. It analyzes a series of cases that describe the state of environmental policy implementation and management in the South. These cases explore the diversity and flexibility which compose the dominant characters of environmental management today. --from publisher description