Rebecca Hamilton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3606341 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Hamilton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Hamilton |
| SIGNATURE | HAMILTON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5443-8353 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Disinformation in New and Old Media in the XXI Century
Colonial policy, ecological transformations, and agricultural “improvement”
Burgeoning global trade and colonial policies promoted transformations in land use and agriculture throughout tropical regions in the 19 th and 20 th centuries, but the local and regional ecological consequences of landscape changes are still being identified and analysed. The Philippine Archipelago, which experienced successive colonial regimes across more than 7100 islands, exemplifies the multiplicity of ecological outcomes produced by these t…
Re-viewing pollution
The Mekong and Ganges-Brahmaputra river basins are an important life force for millions of people across South and Southeast Asia. Yet growing levels of pollution from diverse sources are transforming these important waterscapes into reservoirs of toxicity. Holistic studies of pollution in these systems remains a critical gap. This largely stems from the siloed nature of ‘pollutant’ research, which often focuses on either place-based quantitative…
Re-imagining Sydney’s freshwater wetlands through historical ecology
Australian conservation targets commonly focus on preserving a vaguely defined ecological baseline, often conceptualised as a pre-European, ‘natural’ state. For instance, environmental legislation protects ‘Endangered Ecological Communities’ (EECs), which purportedly represent remnants of naturally occurring biota. However, EECs are often classified without long-term data, making it unclear as to whether the community being protected is indeed ‘n…
Letting the plants speak
The Botany Wetlands are the contemporary remnant of a formerly extensive coastal freshwater wetland in the inner-urban suburbs of Sydney (Australia). This site supports a range of ecosystem services, including human physical and mental health benefits, filtration of stormwater runoff from a highly urban and industrial catchment, and accommodation space for floodwater. The wetlands also provide habitat to migratory water birds and act as a connect…
Uncovering the Multibiome Environmental and Earth System Legacies of Past Human Societies
It has been argued that we have now entered the Anthropocene, a proposed epoch in which humans are having a dominant impact on the Earth system. While some geologists have sought to formalize the Anthropocene as beginning in the mid-twentieth century, its social, geophysical, and environmental roots undoubtedly lie deeper in the past. In this review, we highlight the ways in which human activities across the major biomes of our planet significant…
A policy and research agenda for Asia's poultry industry
Meat consumption and production in Asia have boomed over the last decade to meet growing regional and global demand. Asia now supplies around 40% of the global broiler or meat chicken industry. Dominant policy frameworks such as ‘One Health’ aim to manage the health risks associated with factory livestock farming, which has rightly become a major concern because of regular disease outbreaks. Yet this approach provides a limited basis for addressi…
Microstratigraphy reveals cycles of occupation and abandonment at the mid Holocene coastal site of Thach Lac, northern-central Vietnam
Impossibility of its being deciphered”
In recent decades, it has become increasingly important to reevaluate certain literature and figures in history to discover what was being communicated in the midst of, and through, the silence of minority groups. My particular focus is on the tradition of white female silence and the ways in which Anne Lister and her diaries (as separate entities) contributed to conversations about silence by establishing other methods of communication despite r…
Climatic shifts, geomorphic change, ancient routes of migration and adaption in southwestern China
Archaeologists frequently invoke climate change as a driving cause for ancient expansions of human populations, but geomorphic changes can also play an important role in opening or closing routes of migration. In China, archaeological evidence demonstrates that valleys in the Jialing River's watershed were important routes for the movement of Neolithic populations from the catchments of the Yellow River to the Yangtze River. Here, we examine how …
Indigenous knowledge and the shackles of wilderness
The environmental crises currently gripping the Earth have been codified in a new proposed geological epoch: the Anthropocene. This epoch, according to the Anthropocene Working Group, began in the mid-20th century and reflects the “great acceleration” that began with industrialization in Europe [J. Zalasiewicz et al., Anthropocene 19, 55–60 (2017)]. Ironically, European ideals of protecting a pristine “wilderness,” free from the damaging role of …
Independent and combined effects of improved water, sanitation, and hygiene, and improved complementary feeding, on child stunting and anaemia in rural Zimbabwe
BACKGROUND: Child stunting reduces survival and impairs neurodevelopment. We tested the independent and combined effects of improved water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), and improved infant and young child feeding (IYCF) on stunting and anaemia in in Zimbabwe. METHODS: We did a cluster-randomised, community-based, 2 × 2 factorial trial in two rural districts in Zimbabwe. Clusters were defined as the catchment area of between one and four villag…
Atrocity Prevention in the New Media Landscape
Journalists have traditionally played a crucial role in building public pressure on government officials to uphold their legal obligations under the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. But over the past twenty years there has been radical change in the media landscape: foreign bureaus have been shuttered, young freelance journalists have taken over some of the work traditionally done by experienced foreign corresponde…
The environmental context of a city in decline
How the Intention to Share Can Undermine Enjoyment
People often share their experiences with others who were not originally present, which provides them with both personal and interpersonal benefits. However, most prior work on this form of sharing has examined the decision to share one's experience only after the experience is over. We investigate a distinct, unexplored aspect of the sharing process: when the decision to share is already salient during an experience and hence can impact the expe…
Round Off the Bargaining
This research shows that making a precise (vs. round) offer in a negotiation may lead to diverging outcomes. On the one hand, past literature has demonstrated a precision advantage wherein offer precision reduces the amount by which offer recipients counter. On the other hand, building on the notion that round numbers symbolize completion and previous findings that individuals tend to set goals at round numbers, we hypothesize a roundness advanta…
A Field Guide for the Review Process
The peer review process––both writing reviews for academic journals and responding to reviews of one’s own work––is fundamental to building scientific knowledge. In this article, we explain why you should invest time reviewing, how to write a constructive review, and how to respond effectively to reviews of your own work
Decisions at a Distance
Many consumer decisions concern future rather than immediate consumption, consumption that will take place at a different location, or products and services that others will consume. In such cases, consumers must make decisions based on predictions about how they will feel at a different time, how they will feel when they are in a different place, or how someone else will feel when consuming a product. For example, while at the grocery store, sho…
Outpacing Others
When considering the purchase of a new product, will consumers be more likely to make the purchase if they think about using it every day or if they think about using it every week? From an economic perspective, using a durable product more frequently should increase its perceived value. However, we show that perceived usage frequency relative to other consumers can influence product interest more than absolute usage frequency. In five studies, w…
Bosnia v. Serbia
This article uses the recent judgment of the ICJ in Bosnia v. Serbia to highlight the potential problems that arise when international courts have to adjudicate on overlapping situations. It describes the dispute between the ICJ and the ICTY on the appropriate legal standard for the attribution of state responsibility, and finds that the ICJ's approach in this case suggests that those keen to minimize the fragmentation of international law betwee…
Achieving Your Goals or Protecting Their Future? The Effects of Self-View on Goals and Choices
We show that encouraging consumers to think about themselves as independent or interdependent, making either promotion or prevention goals salient, has a systematic effect on inferred risk preferences. Interdependent self-view consumers, who are more interested in avoiding losses than in achieving gains, choose less risky alternatives than independent self-view consumers. However, because of asymmetric preferences for status quo alternatives, inf…
How the Intention to Share Can Undermine Enjoyment
People often share their experiences with others who were not originally present, which provides them with both personal and interpersonal benefits. However, most prior work on this form of sharing has examined the decision to share one's experience only after the experience is over. We investigate a distinct, unexplored aspect of the sharing process: when the decision to share is already salient during an experience and hence can impact the expe…
Achieving Your Goals or Protecting Their Future? The Effects of Self-View on Goals and Choices
We show that encouraging consumers to think about themselves as independent or interdependent, making either promotion or prevention goals salient, has a systematic effect on inferred risk preferences. Interdependent self-view consumers, who are more interested in avoiding losses than in achieving gains, choose less risky alternatives than independent self-view consumers. However, because of asymmetric preferences for status quo alternatives, inf…
Round Off the Bargaining
This research shows that making a precise (vs. round) offer in a negotiation may lead to diverging outcomes. On the one hand, past literature has demonstrated a precision advantage wherein offer precision reduces the amount by which offer recipients counter. On the other hand, building on the notion that round numbers symbolize completion and previous findings that individuals tend to set goals at round numbers, we hypothesize a roundness advanta…
Outpacing Others
When considering the purchase of a new product, will consumers be more likely to make the purchase if they think about using it every day or if they think about using it every week? From an economic perspective, using a durable product more frequently should increase its perceived value. However, we show that perceived usage frequency relative to other consumers can influence product interest more than absolute usage frequency. In five studies, w…
Uncovering the Multibiome Environmental and Earth System Legacies of Past Human Societies
It has been argued that we have now entered the Anthropocene, a proposed epoch in which humans are having a dominant impact on the Earth system. While some geologists have sought to formalize the Anthropocene as beginning in the mid-twentieth century, its social, geophysical, and environmental roots undoubtedly lie deeper in the past. In this review, we highlight the ways in which human activities across the major biomes of our planet significant…
Letting the plants speak
The Botany Wetlands are the contemporary remnant of a formerly extensive coastal freshwater wetland in the inner-urban suburbs of Sydney (Australia). This site supports a range of ecosystem services, including human physical and mental health benefits, filtration of stormwater runoff from a highly urban and industrial catchment, and accommodation space for floodwater. The wetlands also provide habitat to migratory water birds and act as a connect…
Climatic shifts, geomorphic change, ancient routes of migration and adaption in southwestern China
Archaeologists frequently invoke climate change as a driving cause for ancient expansions of human populations, but geomorphic changes can also play an important role in opening or closing routes of migration. In China, archaeological evidence demonstrates that valleys in the Jialing River's watershed were important routes for the movement of Neolithic populations from the catchments of the Yellow River to the Yangtze River. Here, we examine how …
Decisions at a Distance
Many consumer decisions concern future rather than immediate consumption, consumption that will take place at a different location, or products and services that others will consume. In such cases, consumers must make decisions based on predictions about how they will feel at a different time, how they will feel when they are in a different place, or how someone else will feel when consuming a product. For example, while at the grocery store, sho…
Bosnia v. Serbia
This article uses the recent judgment of the ICJ in Bosnia v. Serbia to highlight the potential problems that arise when international courts have to adjudicate on overlapping situations. It describes the dispute between the ICJ and the ICTY on the appropriate legal standard for the attribution of state responsibility, and finds that the ICJ's approach in this case suggests that those keen to minimize the fragmentation of international law betwee…
Re-imagining Sydney’s freshwater wetlands through historical ecology
Australian conservation targets commonly focus on preserving a vaguely defined ecological baseline, often conceptualised as a pre-European, ‘natural’ state. For instance, environmental legislation protects ‘Endangered Ecological Communities’ (EECs), which purportedly represent remnants of naturally occurring biota. However, EECs are often classified without long-term data, making it unclear as to whether the community being protected is indeed ‘n…
Microstratigraphy reveals cycles of occupation and abandonment at the mid Holocene coastal site of Thach Lac, northern-central Vietnam
The environmental context of a city in decline
A Field Guide for the Review Process
The peer review process––both writing reviews for academic journals and responding to reviews of one’s own work––is fundamental to building scientific knowledge. In this article, we explain why you should invest time reviewing, how to write a constructive review, and how to respond effectively to reviews of your own work
Achieving Your Goals or Protecting Their Future? The Effects of Self-View on Goals and Choices
We show that encouraging consumers to think about themselves as independent or interdependent, making either promotion or prevention goals salient, has a systematic effect on inferred risk preferences. Interdependent self-view consumers, who are more interested in avoiding losses than in achieving gains, choose less risky alternatives than independent self-view consumers. However, because of asymmetric preferences for status quo alternatives, inf…
Bosnia v. Serbia
This article uses the recent judgment of the ICJ in Bosnia v. Serbia to highlight the potential problems that arise when international courts have to adjudicate on overlapping situations. It describes the dispute between the ICJ and the ICTY on the appropriate legal standard for the attribution of state responsibility, and finds that the ICJ's approach in this case suggests that those keen to minimize the fragmentation of international law betwee…
Outpacing Others
When considering the purchase of a new product, will consumers be more likely to make the purchase if they think about using it every day or if they think about using it every week? From an economic perspective, using a durable product more frequently should increase its perceived value. However, we show that perceived usage frequency relative to other consumers can influence product interest more than absolute usage frequency. In five studies, w…
Decisions at a Distance
Many consumer decisions concern future rather than immediate consumption, consumption that will take place at a different location, or products and services that others will consume. In such cases, consumers must make decisions based on predictions about how they will feel at a different time, how they will feel when they are in a different place, or how someone else will feel when consuming a product. For example, while at the grocery store, sho…
A Field Guide for the Review Process
The peer review process––both writing reviews for academic journals and responding to reviews of one’s own work––is fundamental to building scientific knowledge. In this article, we explain why you should invest time reviewing, how to write a constructive review, and how to respond effectively to reviews of your own work
Round Off the Bargaining
This research shows that making a precise (vs. round) offer in a negotiation may lead to diverging outcomes. On the one hand, past literature has demonstrated a precision advantage wherein offer precision reduces the amount by which offer recipients counter. On the other hand, building on the notion that round numbers symbolize completion and previous findings that individuals tend to set goals at round numbers, we hypothesize a roundness advanta…
How the Intention to Share Can Undermine Enjoyment
People often share their experiences with others who were not originally present, which provides them with both personal and interpersonal benefits. However, most prior work on this form of sharing has examined the decision to share one's experience only after the experience is over. We investigate a distinct, unexplored aspect of the sharing process: when the decision to share is already salient during an experience and hence can impact the expe…
Independent and combined effects of improved water, sanitation, and hygiene, and improved complementary feeding, on child stunting and anaemia in rural Zimbabwe
BACKGROUND: Child stunting reduces survival and impairs neurodevelopment. We tested the independent and combined effects of improved water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), and improved infant and young child feeding (IYCF) on stunting and anaemia in in Zimbabwe. METHODS: We did a cluster-randomised, community-based, 2 × 2 factorial trial in two rural districts in Zimbabwe. Clusters were defined as the catchment area of between one and four villag…
Atrocity Prevention in the New Media Landscape
Journalists have traditionally played a crucial role in building public pressure on government officials to uphold their legal obligations under the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. But over the past twenty years there has been radical change in the media landscape: foreign bureaus have been shuttered, young freelance journalists have taken over some of the work traditionally done by experienced foreign corresponde…
The environmental context of a city in decline
Indigenous knowledge and the shackles of wilderness
The environmental crises currently gripping the Earth have been codified in a new proposed geological epoch: the Anthropocene. This epoch, according to the Anthropocene Working Group, began in the mid-20th century and reflects the “great acceleration” that began with industrialization in Europe [J. Zalasiewicz et al., Anthropocene 19, 55–60 (2017)]. Ironically, European ideals of protecting a pristine “wilderness,” free from the damaging role of …
Microstratigraphy reveals cycles of occupation and abandonment at the mid Holocene coastal site of Thach Lac, northern-central Vietnam
Impossibility of its being deciphered”
In recent decades, it has become increasingly important to reevaluate certain literature and figures in history to discover what was being communicated in the midst of, and through, the silence of minority groups. My particular focus is on the tradition of white female silence and the ways in which Anne Lister and her diaries (as separate entities) contributed to conversations about silence by establishing other methods of communication despite r…
Climatic shifts, geomorphic change, ancient routes of migration and adaption in southwestern China
Archaeologists frequently invoke climate change as a driving cause for ancient expansions of human populations, but geomorphic changes can also play an important role in opening or closing routes of migration. In China, archaeological evidence demonstrates that valleys in the Jialing River's watershed were important routes for the movement of Neolithic populations from the catchments of the Yellow River to the Yangtze River. Here, we examine how …
A policy and research agenda for Asia's poultry industry
Meat consumption and production in Asia have boomed over the last decade to meet growing regional and global demand. Asia now supplies around 40% of the global broiler or meat chicken industry. Dominant policy frameworks such as ‘One Health’ aim to manage the health risks associated with factory livestock farming, which has rightly become a major concern because of regular disease outbreaks. Yet this approach provides a limited basis for addressi…
Colonial policy, ecological transformations, and agricultural “improvement”
Burgeoning global trade and colonial policies promoted transformations in land use and agriculture throughout tropical regions in the 19 th and 20 th centuries, but the local and regional ecological consequences of landscape changes are still being identified and analysed. The Philippine Archipelago, which experienced successive colonial regimes across more than 7100 islands, exemplifies the multiplicity of ecological outcomes produced by these t…
Re-viewing pollution
The Mekong and Ganges-Brahmaputra river basins are an important life force for millions of people across South and Southeast Asia. Yet growing levels of pollution from diverse sources are transforming these important waterscapes into reservoirs of toxicity. Holistic studies of pollution in these systems remains a critical gap. This largely stems from the siloed nature of ‘pollutant’ research, which often focuses on either place-based quantitative…
Re-imagining Sydney’s freshwater wetlands through historical ecology
Australian conservation targets commonly focus on preserving a vaguely defined ecological baseline, often conceptualised as a pre-European, ‘natural’ state. For instance, environmental legislation protects ‘Endangered Ecological Communities’ (EECs), which purportedly represent remnants of naturally occurring biota. However, EECs are often classified without long-term data, making it unclear as to whether the community being protected is indeed ‘n…
Letting the plants speak
The Botany Wetlands are the contemporary remnant of a formerly extensive coastal freshwater wetland in the inner-urban suburbs of Sydney (Australia). This site supports a range of ecosystem services, including human physical and mental health benefits, filtration of stormwater runoff from a highly urban and industrial catchment, and accommodation space for floodwater. The wetlands also provide habitat to migratory water birds and act as a connect…
Uncovering the Multibiome Environmental and Earth System Legacies of Past Human Societies
It has been argued that we have now entered the Anthropocene, a proposed epoch in which humans are having a dominant impact on the Earth system. While some geologists have sought to formalize the Anthropocene as beginning in the mid-twentieth century, its social, geophysical, and environmental roots undoubtedly lie deeper in the past. In this review, we highlight the ways in which human activities across the major biomes of our planet significant…
Disinformation in New and Old Media in the XXI Century
Geography (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (4 works) · Economics (4 works)