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Intro -- Foreword -- References -- Preface -- D'harawal Stories of Cycles and Seasons: Land, Water, and Fire -- Introduction -- Observation and Experience: The Science of the D'harawal Peoples -- The Annual Weather Cycle -- The Mudong (11-12 Year) Climate Cycle -- The Garuwanga or Dreaming Cycle -- The Gathering Place -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Part I: Responding to the Anthropocene -- Chapter 1: Sustainability, Education, and Anthropocentric Precarity -- Precarity in the Anthropocene -- Sustainability in the Anthropocene -- Precarity and Sustainability Education -- Mapping the Ideas -- Section One: Responding to the Anthropocene -- Section Two: Re-configuring and Re-worlding -- Section Three: Re-reading and Grappling -- Section Four: Re-presenting and Re-presencing -- Living Well with the Planet -- References -- Chapter 2: The Anthropocene's Call to Educational Research -- Introduction -- What Does the Anthropocene Do? -- The Context of Advanced Capitalism -- The Rise of Posthuman Philosophical Approaches -- Postqualitative Methodologies in Educational Research -- Entanglement and the Method of 'Intra-action' -- 'Common Worlds' and Multi-species Ethnographies -- Becoming-Frog -- Thinking Through Country -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Alternative Paradigms for Sustainability: Decentring the Human Without Becoming Posthuman -- Introduction -- Of Children's Games and Serious Concerns -- The Problem with Posthumanism -- Problem One. The Term 'Posthuman' Gives the Impression that It Advocates a Time After-or Post-the Human -- Problem Two: Posthumanism Is Conceptually Confusing -- Problem Three: The Posthumanist Critique of Dualism Is Thin and Misdirected -- Problem Four: Some Posthumanists Anthropomorphise the Very World that They Treat as Beyond the Human.

The North Central Coast of Vietnam has a wide distribution of loose sand which is often exposed on the surface. The thickness changes from a few meters to over ten meters. This sand with the loose state can be sensitive to the dynamic loads, such as earthquakes, traffic load, or machine foundations. It can be liquefied under these loadings, which might destroy the ground and buildings. The Standard Penetration Test (SPT) is widely used in engineering practice and its values can be useful for the assessment of soil liquefaction potential. Thus, this article presents some ground profiles in some sites in the North Central Coast of Vietnam and determines the liquefaction potential of sand based on SPT and using three parameters, including the Factor of Safety against Liquefaction (FSLIQ), Liquefaction Potential Index (LPI), and Liquefaction Severity Number (LSN). The research results show that the FSLIQ, LPI, and LSN values depend on the depth of sand samples and the SPT values. In this study, the sand distributed from 2.0 to 18.0m with (N1)60cs value of less than 20 has high liquefaction potential with FSLIQ<1, LPI is often higher than 0.73, and LSN is often higher than 10. The results also show that many soil profiles have high liquefaction potential. These results should be considered for construction activities in this area.

Rapid assessments of the mammal fauna in the Tamdao national park (NP) were conducted in December of 2004, January and May of 2005 through village interviews and extensive field investigations. Eight (8) large mammal species were reported to be extirpated from the Tamdao NP. Seventy-four (74) mammal species were recorded to be existing in the Tamdao NP. A new checklist of 77 mammal species belonging to 24 families,18 orders was compiled. Out of these 77 recorded species, 21 species were of conservation concern, including 16 nationally threatened species, 17 globally threatened species and 16 species enlisted in the Government Decree 48/2002/NDCP. Current threats to mammal fauna in the Tamdao NP were illegal wildlife hunting, wildlife trade, exploitation of forest products, forest fire and domestic cattle raising.

The paper aims at investigating the content of particles and minerals of soft clay soil in the Mekong Delta coastal provinces, southern Vietnam, as well as improving soil stability using inorganic adhesives, i.e.lime and cement-based stabilization. To study the composition of soft clay soil, a series of different laboratory methods were carried out and revealed various characteristics related to mineral composition, pH value, soluble salt content, and grain particle composition of soft clay soils. The results demonstrated five soil subtypes, namely high – saline soil (S2), low-saline soil (S1), acid sulfate soil (A), acid sulfate - saline soil (S-A), soil without salt andacid sulfate content (S0- A0). The soft clay soil (C) included 5 subtypes, which were C-S2, C-S1, C-A, C-AS, and C-S0-A0, whereas the soft sandy clay soil (SC) included three subtypes, namely SC-S2, SC- S1, and SC-S0-A0. Analysis of the above results showed that the high - saline soil, acid sulfate soil, and acid sulfate - saline soil are not suitable for lime and cement stabilization. This observation was illustrated by the initial experiment of cement – soil mixture properties.