Adam Rome

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Adam Ward Rome
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Yale University
University of Kansas
Scientific career
FieldsEnvironmental history
Institutions Pennsylvania State University

Adam Ward Rome is an American environmental historian. In his book Bulldozer in the Countryside , he examines how the post World War II residential construction boom and its resulting urban sprawl contributed to the rise of the modern environmental movement.

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Rome graduated from Yale University summa cum laude, studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. From 2002 to 2005 he edited Environmental History. [1] He is a professor of environment and sustainability at the University at Buffalo.

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