Bethany Cutts

Bio

Bethany uses geospatial analytics to identify science-driven solutions to enhance the social, economic, and ecological well-being of communities, particularly through recognizing and ameliorating historical patterns of marginalization. She combines geographic information systems with social network analysis and innovative public participation methods to explore local and regional sustainability solutions in the context of global change. Her interests include participatory mapping, environmental justice, and geovisualization.

Publications

• Water security in North Carolina’s most economically insecure county: a case study , Environmental Research Letters (2025)
• Conceptualizing community-level environmental literacy using the Delphi method , ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION RESEARCH (2024)
• Exploring Project Connections Across the Citizen Science Landscape: A Social Network Analysis of Shared Volunteers , SAGE OPEN (2024)
• Patient capital and no net loss: Applying institutional theory to understand publicly‐owned mitigation banking in an urban context at a United States port , Public Administration (2024)
• Pushing toward systemic change in the Capitalocene: Investigating the efficacy of existing behavior prediction models on individual and collective pro-environmental actions in high school students , JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION (2024)
• Shifting power: data democracy in engineering solutions , ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS (2024)
• Advancing social equity in urban tree planting: Lessons learned from an integrative review of the literature , URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING (2023)
• BRIDGE Builders - Leadership and social capital in disaster recovery governance , INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION (2023)
• Environmental justice in disaster recovery: Recognition of the Latinx community by nonprofit leaders , CLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT (2023)
• Family matters: intergenerational influences on children's agricultural literacy , JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION (2023)