Quoted in the Media
Human Composting Could Help Crowded Cities Bury Their Dead Sustainably. Freethink.
Rethinking Death in America. US News and World Report.
Natural Burials are Rising, and that’s Good for the Planet. Pacific Standard.
Urban Cemeteries Running Out Of Space As Baby Boomers Enter Twilight Years. Forbes.
A Hemmed-In Cemetery Finds a Bit More Space. The New York Times.
Reconnecting Urban Planning and Public Health. Next City.
Scarce Cemetery Space Creates Prices to Die For: Cities. Bloomberg News.
A Lifetime After the Baby Boom, a Burial Boom. The New York Times.
America’s Looming Burial Crisis. The Atlantic: Citylab.
Tampa Bay Area’s Newest Suburbs Set Growth Limit. Tampa Bay Tribune.
Working Papers
Williams, P. C., Jackson, A., Greenlee, A. J., Jackson, C. L., & Coutts, C. Measuring residential displacement risk over time and space: Evidence from the Atlanta BeltLine.
Journal Publications
*Most publications below not in open access journals are available through the DigiNole Commons Virtual Repository. Search “coutts” in the Search this Collection box.
VanSickle, M., McSorley, M., & Coutts, C. (2025). Exploring equity in city planning for children’s nature play. Sustainability, 17(10), 4538.
Shen, R., Williams, P., & Coutts, C. (2024). Identifying the health benefits of city bike infrastructure expansion policy. Journal of Urban Affairs.
Botchwey, N., Stiftel, B., Coutts, C., Ross, C., & Chatman, O. (2023). Community design and revitalization to promote health: The track record after 20 years. Journal of the American Planning Association, 89(2), 157-159.
Milliken, S., Kotzen, B., Walimbe, S., Coutts, C., & Beatley, T. (2023). Biophilic cities and health. Cities & Health, 7(2), 175-188.
VanSickle, M., & Coutts, C. (2022). Considerations for children’s nature connection & park environmental
justice in western societies. Land, 11(9).
Williams, P. C., Alhasan, D., Krafty, R., Coutts, C., Miles-Richardson, S., & Jackson, C. L. (2022). A mixed methods approach to understand greenspace redevelopment in relation to objectively- and subjectively-measured sleep health among black adults in southwest Atlanta. Health & Place, 76.
Williams, P., Krafty, R., Alexander, T., Davis, Z., Gregory, A., Proby, R., Troxel, W., & Coutts, C. (2021). Greenspace redevelopment, pressure of displacement, and sleep quality among Black adults in Southwest Atlanta. Journal Of Exposure Science And Environmental Epidemiology, 31, 412-426.
Coutts, C., Holmes, T. & Jackson, A. (2019). Forestry policy, conservation activities, and ecosystem services in the remote Misuku Hills of Malawi. Forests, 10(2), 1056.
Coutts, C., Wenger, R, & Duncan, M. (2019). Exploratory analysis of revealed pedestrian paths as cues for designing pedestrian infrastructure. Urban Planning and Development, 145(4).
Coutts, C., Basmajian, C., Sehee, J., Kelty, S. & Williams, P.C. (2018). Natural burial as a land conservation tool in the US. Landscape and Urban Planning, 178, 130-143.
Taylor, C. & Coutts, C. (2018). Greenways as safe routes to school in a Latino community in East Los Angeles. Cities & Health., 3(1-2), 141-157.
Miller, S. & Coutts, C. (2018). A multiple case study of local & creative financing of bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure. Case Studies on Transport Policy, 6(2), 257-264.
Chapin, T. & Coutts, C. (2017). Go-Gos, Slow-Gos, and No-Gos: Analyzing urban migration in Florida’s elderly population 2000-2010. Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, 34(1), 49-70.
Jennings, V., Floyd, M., Shanahan, D., Coutts, C., & Sinykin, A. (2017). Emerging issues in urban ecology: Implications for research, social justice, and human health and well-being. Population and Environment, 39(1), 69-86.
Kim, A., Coutts, C., Newman, J., Brandon-Lai, S., & Kim, M.J. (2016). Socio-geographic patterns in participating community-based youth sport programs: Socio-demographic information, sport types, and travel distance. Journal of Amateur Sport, 2(1), 39-72.
Coutts, C. & Hahn, M. (2015). Green infrastructure, ecosystem services, and human health. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 12(8), 9768-9798. Available at: http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/12/8/9768/html
Coutts, C. & Horner, M. (2015). Nature and death: An individual level analysis of the relationship between biophilic environments and mortality in Florida. In P. Kanaroglou, E. Delmelle, A. Paez (Eds.) Spatial Analysis and Health Geography (pp. 295-312). Surrey, UK: Ashgate.
Bae, S., Kwon, S., Coutts, C., Park, S., & Feiock, R. (2015). Development impact fees: A vehicle or restraint for land development? Lex localis – Journal of Local Self-Government, 13(4), 1047-1065.
Coutts, C., Forkink, A., & Weiner, J. (2014). The portrayal of nature in the evolution of the ecological public health paradigm. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 11(1), 1005-1019. Available at: http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/11/1/1005
Park, S.C., Coutts, C., & Lee, S.J. (2014). The inclusion of health in county comprehensive planning. The Korean Journal of Policy Studies, 29(1), 1-20.
Coutts, C. & Berke, T. (2013). The extent and context of human health considerations in London’s spatial development and climate action strategy. Journal of Urban Planning and Development, 139(4), 322-330.
Coutts, C., Chapin, T., Horner, M., & Taylor, C. (2013). The county-level effects of green space access on physical activity. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 10(2), 232-240.
Coutts, C. (2012). Creating connected open space in Florida: The influence on human use for recreation. Managing Leisure, 17(1), 67-74.
Miles, R., Coutts, C., & Mohamadi, A. (2012). Neighborhood urban form, social environment, and depression. Journal of Urban Health, 89(1), 1-18.
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 geographic information systems 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). Multiple case studies of the 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
Coutts, C., & Basmajian, C.(2024). Zoning for the dead. Zoning Practice.
Coutts, C., & Williams, P. (2022). Healthy behavioral choices and the built environment. In Nisha Botchwey, Howard Frumkin, & Andrew Dannenberg (Eds.), Making Healthy Places. Washington DC: Island Press.
Zavattaro, S. M., Coutts, C. (2022). Public values lessons from death and dying. Public Money and Management.
Basmajian, C. & Coutts, C. (2019). Death and Burial: In the Past Lies the Future. MONU magazine #31.
Grant, M., Brown, C., Caiaffa, W. T., Capon, A., Corburn, J., Coutts, C., Crespo, C. J., Ellis, G., Ferguson, G., Fudge, C., Hancock, T., Lawrence, R. J., Nieuwenhuijsen, M. J., Oni, T., Thompson, S., Wagenaar, C., & Ward Thompson, C. (2017). Cities and health: An evolving global conversation. Cities & Health, 1(1), 1-9.
Grant, M., Brown, C., Caiaffa, W. T., Capon, A., Corburn, J., Coutts, C., Crespo, C. J., Ellis, G., Ferguson, G., Fudge, C., Hancock, T., Lawrence, R. J., Nieuwenhuijsen, M. J., Oni, T., Thompson, S., Wagenaar, C., & Ward Thompson, C. (2017). Research for city practice. Cities & Health, 1(1), 10-21.
Coutts, C. (2016). Green infrastructure and public health. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. eISBN 978-1-315-64762-3. 20% discount on purchase with code: FLR40. “A splendid book. Christopher Coutts extends the tradition of Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and Tony McMichael, showing how green infrastructure—from sweeping natural landscapes to trees to small urban greenspaces—not only provide precious ecosystem services, but are essential to our health, well-being, and even our survival as a species. This book is evidence-based, nuanced, wise, and readable. A signal contribution to public health, environmental studies, and the design professions.” Howard Frumkin
Coutts, C., Basmajian, C., Salkin, P., & Merriam, D. (April 2013). Planning for the deceased. American Planning Association Planning Advisory Service (PAS) report #572.
Feiock, R. & Coutts, C. (Eds.) (2013). Climate change and city hall. Special issue of the journal Cityscape.
Feiock, R. & Coutts, C. (2013). Governing the sustainable city. Cityscape, 15(1), 1-8.
Chapin, T., & Coutts, C. (Eds.) (2011). Growth management and public land acquisition: Balancing conservation and development. Surrey, UK: 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 Florida. Policy Brief, Issue #28. DeVoe Moore Center, Florida State University.
Coutts, C. (2006). Greenway accessibility and physical activity behavior in two Michigan cities. Doctoral dissertation, University of Michigan. ProQuest Digital Dissertations database (Publication No. AAT 3237936).
Coutts, C. (2006). Albuquerque, NM. In Encyclopedia of American Urban History. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Coutts, C. (2004). Book review [Building suburbia: Green fields and urban growth, 1820-2000]. Journal of Planning Literature, 18(4), 458-459.