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The orphaned land : New Mexico's environment since the Manhattan Project / V.B. Price ; photographs by Nell Farrell.

Title
The orphaned land : New Mexico's environment since the Manhattan Project / V.B. Price ; photographs by Nell Farrell.
Author
Price, V. B. (Vincent Barrett)
Publication
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2011.

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Description
xix, 362 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
In this work the author presents New Mexico as a microcosm of global ecological degradation. He states that the New Mexico environment is endangered by military, corporate, and urban polluters and consumers as hazerdous waste, munitions testing, radioactive emissions, and other issues affect the land, water and air. The author assembles his information in part from newspaper articles and government reports.
Subject
  • Environmental degradation > New Mexico
  • Hazardous wastes > Environmental aspects > New Mexico
  • New Mexico > Environmental conditions > Case studies
Genre/Form
  • Case studies
  • Études de cas.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-345) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Key human impacts on the New Mexico environment -- Water: a desert among eons of oceans -- Environmental discrimination: dumping on the poor -- Toxic waste: "everything has to go somewhere" -- Urban/rural struggles: the broader habitat -- Conditions, conclusions, new paths to follow.
ISBN
  • 9780826350497 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0826350496 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780826350510 (electronic)
  • 0826350518 (electronic)
  • 9780826350503 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 082635050X (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2011009569
OCLC
705568502
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