Christopher J.
Coutts
Assistant Professor
Dept.
of Urban
& Regional Planning
Research Associate
Center
for Demography and Population Health
Florida
State University
113 Collegiate Loop
Tallahassee, FL 32306-2280
ccoutts@fsu.edu
(850) 644-5015
(850) 645-4841 (fax)
M.P.H., Health Behavior and Education
B.C.H., Community Health Education
New Mexico
U.S. Peace Corps
HIV/AIDS Educator, Malawi, Africa, 1998-2000
YFU Student Exchange, Gold Coast, Australia, 1990
Last Updated on April 2, 2012
Research
Professor Coutts's research focuses on the
influence of the built environment and ecologically-sensitive land use
practices on community
health and health behavior.
Professor Coutts's Curriculum Vitae
Current Projects
Dr. Coutts is currently:- Co-editing a journal special issue that will include works from the spring 2012 symposium The Local Benefits of Sustainability.
- Coauthoring an article with Dr. Tim Chapin exploring the the spatial dimensions of residential choice among the elderly in Florida.
- Collaborating with Dr. Carlton Basmajian to study the land use implications of the disposal of the dead in the U.S.
- Testing the efficacy of an assortment of landscapes metrics in predicting health outcomes and behaviors.
- Composing an NIH proposal to support "obesegenic" environment research.
- Producing a film on the health benefits of London parks.
Coutts, C. Human health in The London Plan: How health is framed in a world city's spatial development and climate action strategy.
Coutts, C., Basmajian, C., Salkin, P., & Merriam, D. (2012). Planning for the deceased. American Planning Association Planning Advisory Service (PAS) report.
Coutts, C., Taylor, C., & Parker, D. Green infrastructure as a sustainable mitigation and adaptation strategy to address the health risks of climate change.
Peer-Reviewed PublicationsCoutts, C., Chapin, T., Horner, M., & Taylor, C. (2012). The county-level effects of green space access on physical activity. Journal of Physical Activity and Health (in press).
Miles, R., Coutts, C., & Mohamadi, A. (2012). Neighborhood urban form, social environment, and depression. Journal of Urban Health (in press; available online).
Coutts, C. (2012). Creating connected open space in
Coutts, C. & Taylor, C. (2011). [Feature article] Putting the capital "E" environment into ecological models of health. Journal of Environmental Health, 74(4), 26-29.
Coutts, C., Basmajian, C., & Chapin, T. (2011). Projecting landscapes of death. Landscape and Urban Planning, 102(4), 254-261.
Coutts, C. & Miles, R. (2011). Greenways as green magnets: The relationship between the race of greenway users and race in proximal neighborhoods. Journal of Leisure Research, 43(3), 317-333.
Coutts, C., Horner, M., & Chapin, T. (2010). Using GIS to model the effects of green space accessibility on mortality in Florida. Geocarto International, 25(6), 471-484.
Coutts, C. (2010). Green infrastructure and public health in the Florida Communities Trust land acquisition program. Planning Practice and
Research, 25(4), 439-459.
Basmajian, C., & Coutts, C. (2010). Planning for the disposal of the dead. Journal of the American Planning Association, 76(3), 305-317.
Coutts, C. (2010). Public health ecology. Journal of Environmental Health, 72(6), 53-55.
Coutts, C. (2009). Locational influence of land use type on the distribution of uses along urban river greenways. Urban Planning and Development, 135(1), 31-38.
Coutts, C. (2008). Greenway accessibility and physical activity behavior. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 35(3), 552-563.
Alaimo, K., Bassett, E., Wilkerson, R., Petersmarck, K., Mosack, J., Mendez, D., Coutts, C., Grost, L., & Stegmier, L. (2008). The promoting
active communities award: Development of Michigan’s self-assessment tool. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 5(1), 4-18.
Other Publications
Ashgate.
Coutts, C. (2011). Green infrastructure and public health in the Florida Communities Trust open space acquisition program (reprint). In T. Chapin & C. Coutts (Eds.), Growth management and public land acquisition: Balancing conservation and development. Surrey, UK: Ashgate.
Coutts, C. (2008, November). Green infrastructure connectivity and human health in
Coutts, C. (2006). Greenway accessibility and physical activity behavior in two
Coutts, C. (2006).
Coutts, C. (2004). Book review [Building suburbia: Green fields and urban growth, 1820-2000]. Journal of Planning Literature, 18(4), 458-459.
Selected Presentations
Coutts, C. (2012, July). Human health in The London Plan: How health is framed in a world city's spatial development and climate action strategy. Association of European Schools of Planning, Ankara, Turkey.Coutts, C., Basmajian, C., & Chapin, T. (2011, October). Projecting landscapes of death. Association of the Collegiate Schools of Planning, Salt Lake City, UT.
Coutts, C. (2011, March). Urban and environmental planning for public health. Duke University, Durham, NC.
Coutts, C. (2010, August). Developing a GIS methodology to study the relationship between landscape structure and human health in Florida. EcoHealth annual conference, London, UK.
Coutts, C. (2010, January). Climate change and public health. Florida Dept. of Health and 1000 Friends of Florida sponsored workshop. Tallahassee, FL.
Coutts, C. (2009, October). Creating a connected landscape structure in Florida: A focus on human health benefits. National Environmental Public Health Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Coutts, C. (2008, August). Human health and conservation in coastal Florida communities. Florida State University Coastal and Marine Lab.
Coutts, C. (2008, May). U.S. graduate education. Keynote address. Poornima Engineering College, Jaipur, India.
Coutts, C. (2007, February). Greenway accessibility and physical activity behavior in two Michigan cities. Poster presented at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Active Living Research annual conference, Coronado, CA.
Recent Research Grants
2011
Principal Investigator, Council on Research and Creativity
An innovative environmental support for physical activity among elementary school students in Escambia County, FL
2009
Co-Principal Investigator, Institute for Energy Systems, Economics, and Sustainability
Promoting Energy Sustainability through Land Use, Transportation, and Green Infrastructure Policies
2008
Principal Investigator, DeVoe L. Moore Center research grant
Green Infrastructure Connectivity and Human Health in Florida
2007
Principal Investigator, Florida State University First Year Assistant Professor (FYAP) summer research grant
The Role of Community Health in Public Open Space Acquisition
*Best Poster Award at 2008 FYAP Symposium*
2005-06
Principal Investigator, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Active Living Research dissertation grant
Greenway Accessibility and Physical Activity Behavior in Two Michigan Cities
Professor Coutts's teaching responsibility is split between the Dept. of Urban and Regional Planning and the Masters in Public Health program in the College of Social Science and Public Policy.
The courses he currently teaches are:
Fall
URP 5521 : Public Health Epidemiology
URP
5272 : Urban and Regional Information Systems (GIS)
Spring
URP 5939 : Health Behavior and Education
URP 5425 : Methods of Environmental Analysis
Summer
(on the FSU London, UK campus)
URP 1006 : World Cities
Other courses he has taught include:
URP 5905 : Spatial Planning for Public Health (directed individual study)
Reviewer, American Journal of Public Health
Reviewer, Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design
Reviewer, Environmental Impact Assessment Review
Reviewer, Environmental Justice
Reviewer, Human Ecology
Reviewer (distinguished), Journal of Environmental Health
Reviewer, Journal of Maps
Reviewer, Journal of Planning Education and Research
Reviewer, Journal of Urban Planning and Development
Reviewer, Landscape and Urban Planning
Reviewer, Planning Practice and Research
Reviewer, Population and Environment
Reviewer, Transportation Research Board
Geographic
Information Systems (ArcGIS) and spatial
analysis techniques
Survey
Research
Techniques, Institute for Social Research,
University of
National
Institutes of Health Human Participant Protections
for Research certification
Fluent
(although somewhat out of practice) in the Tumbukan
language of
Christina Hayford, Highways and AIDS incidence in Illinois counties: 1995-2010
Dana Brosig, The importance of cost-sharing in development: Improving water access in rural Uganda through cost-sharing initiatives
Pachen Sturgis and Kevin Work, Deviant pedestrianism
Jeannine Kelsick, NIMBY versus biomass: How to create an atmosphere to promote waste-to-energy facilities in Florida
Valerie Neilson, Public health considerations in the new LEED neighborhood development rating system
Katharine Bucca, Evaluating methods of alternative water supply
Interesting
Joint
Planning and Public Health Curriculum
Ecosystems and Human Well-Being
Academic Skills
Forester
on Academic Writing
Krieger
on Presentations
Academic Info
The
Chronicle of Higher Education
Planetizen
Data
State of the World Population 2007 Gapminder
News
Association
of Collegiate Schools of Planning
All-Murray’s
Select Side Rugby Club
Professor Coutts has slowed down his travel in recent years, but he has visited, worked, and lived in: All but 1 US state, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, England, France, India, Malawi, Mexico, Mozambique, The Netherlands, South Africa, Switzerland, and Tanzania.
