The Orphaned Land
New Mexico's Environment Since the Manhattan Project
Description
Although most people prefer not to think about them, hazardous wastes, munitions testing, radioactive emissions, and a variety of other issues affect the quality of land, water, and air in the Land of Enchantment, as they do all over the world.
In this book, veteran New Mexico journalist V. B. Price assembles a vast amount of information on more than fifty years of deterioration of the state's environment, most of it hitherto available only in scattered newspaper articles and government reports. Viewing New Mexico as a microcosm of global ecological degradation, Price's is the first book to give the general public a realistic perspective on the problems surrounding New Mexico's environmental health and resources.
Pages332
Released2011
LanguageEnglish
PublisherUniversity of New Mexico Press
ISBN9780826350510
SellerSimon & Schuster
About the author(s)
V. B. Price is a noted New Mexican poet and journalist—and more. He is a member of the faculty of the University of New Mexico’s Honors College, former editor of the Mary Burritt Christensen Poetry Series at the University of New Mexico Press, and an adjunct associate professor at the UNM School of Architecture and Planning. He is a cofounder of the online publication New Mexico Mercury and the author of several books, including The Orphaned Land: New Mexico’s Environment Since the Manhattan Project.
Nell Farrell is a documentary photographer and writer specializing in Latin American and the American Southwest.
