Christopher Coutts
Biographic Data
| ID | 4443490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Coutts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Coutts |
| SIGNATURE | COUTTS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3228-5891 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Daring to Say STOP
Identifying the health benefits of city bike infrastructure expansion policy
The aim of this study was to understand how policy actions implemented by city governments to improve infrastructure within the built environment can in turn influence healthy behaviors and population health. The authors investigated the associations between policy actions implemented by city governments to improve biking infrastructure and multiple health outcomes including leisure-time physical inactivity, obesity and coronary heart disease (CH…
Community Design and Revitalization to Promote Health
This “Community Design and Revitalization to Promote Health: The Track Record After 20 Years” special issue features articles that scrutinize the implementation and results of interventions promoting public health across the built environment fields. Analyzing policies, case studies, pilot programs, and other dimensions of the built environment constructed in communities, cities, and regions in recent years, these special issue articles present t…
A mixed methods approach to understand greenspace redevelopment in relation to objectively- and subjectively-measured sleep health among Black adults in Southwest Atlanta
Greenspace redevelopment (GR) can reproduce the conditions that drive inequities • Sleep, essential for health and wellbeing, may be moderated by GR exposure status • GR-exposed participants experiencing financial strain had poorer sleep outcomes • Contributing factors include fear of displacement due to increases in housing costs • Policies that address structural racism and preserve Black spaces are needed
Natural burial as a land conservation tool in the US
Emerging issues in urban ecology
Green Infrastructure, Ecosystem Services, and Human Health
Contemporary ecological models of health prominently feature the natural environment as fundamental to the ecosystem services that support human life, health, and well-being. The natural environment encompasses and permeates all other spheres of influence on health. Reviews of the natural environment and health literature have tended, at times intentionally, to focus on a limited subset of ecosystem services as well as health benefits stemming fr…
The Portrayal of Natural Environment in the Evolution of the Ecological Public Health Paradigm
This paper explores the conceptualization of the natural environment in an evolving ecological public health paradigm. The natural environment has long been recognized as essential to supporting life, health, and wellbeing. Our understanding of the relationship between the natural environment and health has steadily evolved from one of an undynamic environment to a more sophisticated understanding of ecological interactions. This evolution is ref…
Neighborhood Urban Form, Social Environment, and Depression
Greenways as Green Magnets
Although advances have been made in research examining race and the use of public parks, there has been little attention paid to urban greenways. Using Geographic Positioning System (GPS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) technology, this exploratory study examines whether the racial composition of neighborhoods surrounding two urban greenways in Michigan acts as a barrier to trail use or whether these urban greenways operate as "green magn…
Green Infrastructure and Public Health in the Florida Communities Trust Public Land Acquisition Program
The Florida Communities Trust (FCT) program provides grants to local governments to preserve open space. In doing so, this program plays an important role in supporting public health. A total of 617 FCT applications submitted between 2001 and 2006 were examined to determine in what ways the FCT is supporting public health. Results revealed that the FCT is supporting health most notably through the provision of park and greenway settings for physi…
Neighborhood Urban Form, Social Environment, and Depression
Greenways as Green Magnets
Although advances have been made in research examining race and the use of public parks, there has been little attention paid to urban greenways. Using Geographic Positioning System (GPS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) technology, this exploratory study examines whether the racial composition of neighborhoods surrounding two urban greenways in Michigan acts as a barrier to trail use or whether these urban greenways operate as "green magn…
Natural burial as a land conservation tool in the US
Emerging issues in urban ecology
Identifying the health benefits of city bike infrastructure expansion policy
The aim of this study was to understand how policy actions implemented by city governments to improve infrastructure within the built environment can in turn influence healthy behaviors and population health. The authors investigated the associations between policy actions implemented by city governments to improve biking infrastructure and multiple health outcomes including leisure-time physical inactivity, obesity and coronary heart disease (CH…
Green Infrastructure and Public Health in the Florida Communities Trust Public Land Acquisition Program
The Florida Communities Trust (FCT) program provides grants to local governments to preserve open space. In doing so, this program plays an important role in supporting public health. A total of 617 FCT applications submitted between 2001 and 2006 were examined to determine in what ways the FCT is supporting public health. Results revealed that the FCT is supporting health most notably through the provision of park and greenway settings for physi…
Neighborhood Urban Form, Social Environment, and Depression
Greenways as Green Magnets
Although advances have been made in research examining race and the use of public parks, there has been little attention paid to urban greenways. Using Geographic Positioning System (GPS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) technology, this exploratory study examines whether the racial composition of neighborhoods surrounding two urban greenways in Michigan acts as a barrier to trail use or whether these urban greenways operate as "green magn…
The Portrayal of Natural Environment in the Evolution of the Ecological Public Health Paradigm
This paper explores the conceptualization of the natural environment in an evolving ecological public health paradigm. The natural environment has long been recognized as essential to supporting life, health, and wellbeing. Our understanding of the relationship between the natural environment and health has steadily evolved from one of an undynamic environment to a more sophisticated understanding of ecological interactions. This evolution is ref…
Green Infrastructure, Ecosystem Services, and Human Health
Contemporary ecological models of health prominently feature the natural environment as fundamental to the ecosystem services that support human life, health, and well-being. The natural environment encompasses and permeates all other spheres of influence on health. Reviews of the natural environment and health literature have tended, at times intentionally, to focus on a limited subset of ecosystem services as well as health benefits stemming fr…
Emerging issues in urban ecology
Natural burial as a land conservation tool in the US
A mixed methods approach to understand greenspace redevelopment in relation to objectively- and subjectively-measured sleep health among Black adults in Southwest Atlanta
Greenspace redevelopment (GR) can reproduce the conditions that drive inequities • Sleep, essential for health and wellbeing, may be moderated by GR exposure status • GR-exposed participants experiencing financial strain had poorer sleep outcomes • Contributing factors include fear of displacement due to increases in housing costs • Policies that address structural racism and preserve Black spaces are needed
Community Design and Revitalization to Promote Health
This “Community Design and Revitalization to Promote Health: The Track Record After 20 Years” special issue features articles that scrutinize the implementation and results of interventions promoting public health across the built environment fields. Analyzing policies, case studies, pilot programs, and other dimensions of the built environment constructed in communities, cities, and regions in recent years, these special issue articles present t…
Identifying the health benefits of city bike infrastructure expansion policy
The aim of this study was to understand how policy actions implemented by city governments to improve infrastructure within the built environment can in turn influence healthy behaviors and population health. The authors investigated the associations between policy actions implemented by city governments to improve biking infrastructure and multiple health outcomes including leisure-time physical inactivity, obesity and coronary heart disease (CH…
Daring to Say STOP
Geography (9 works) · Urban Green Space and Health (6 works) · Environmental planning (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Environmental resource management (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Public health (4 works)