Environmental history has privileged rural production over metropolitan land use

Evidence

The scholarship in the field has focused mainly on rural forms of production – farming, ranching, mining, lumbering, fishing, and hunting. Yet the enterprises of the metropolis also have had profound environmental consequences. Since I wanted to write about suburbia, I decided to focus on homebuilding. — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 14

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Wilderness recreation is a class privilege that devalues rural land-based labor — William Cronon, The Trouble with Wilderness; or,…, 65; Environmental history scholarship overlooked the suburban origins of environmentalism — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 13; Environmentalists’ rural ideal of nature hindered building an urban land-use vision — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 987 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Environmentalists’ rural ideal of nature hindered building an urban land-use vision #corroborates (0.92) — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 987
• Postwar open-space loss converted conservation into a suburban problem and generated new causes #corroborates (0.78) — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 546
• Suburban environmental concern, not just affluence or wilderness, fueled environmentalism #corroborates (0.72) — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 43
• Conservation concerns migrated from forests and farms into metropolitan areas #corroborates (0.70) — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 1537