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Robert Mabro assesses different aspects of the issue; Resource Nationalism: Nordine Aït-Laoussine asks what's new? Michael Daly argues that the oil companies' move to the technological frontiers is a response to the access problem; Patrick Pouyanné considers new stakes for companies and government and the need for renewed trust.

Resolving urban land claims is an important facet of enacting sovereignty in cities and is occurring in the cities of settler states like Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The creation of urban reserves is an important means by which First Nations in Canadian cities, especially on the Prairies, are settling outstanding land claims. Findings from interviews with key informants on the urban reserve creation process in Saskatchewan, Canada's two largest cities, shows urban reserves as liminal spaces in dynamic tension between self-determination, jurisdiction, economic development, and colonial processes of property stipulation, government relations, and approval. This policy area can be enhanced at each stage of the process and offers a pathway toward active treaty relationships in cities.

Dose rates of 238Pu and 239+240Pu241 Am were determined for the plants from four phytocenoses of the Polesie State Radiation-Ecological Reserve. A significant difference in the values of the dose rates of the whole plant body is shown when calculating according to the data on the activity of radionuclides in the aboveground organs and underground organs. The highest dose rates with transuranic elements for dry meadow ecosystem plants fall on species of the Poaceae and Fabaceae families, forb birch forest – Poaceae, moss pine forest – Betulaceae, Ericaceae, black alder nettle forest – Betulaceae. For 238Pu, the internal dose per year can reach up to 5.17 mGy (Vicia cracca), 239+240Pu – up to 4.05 (Poa pratensis), and 241Am – up to 22.34 mGy (Betula pendula). The data obtained indicate that the dose rates of 238Pu, 239+240Pu, and Pu241Am separately do not exceed the Derived Consideration Reference Levels proposed by the ICRP for non-human biota.

In July 1965 the Johnson administration made the fateful decision of relying on the draft rather than calling up the Reserves to augment U.S. forces in Vietnam. By virtue of this action the traditional role of the Reserves was abandoned to the eventual detriment of the politicians who made the decision and to the military services themselves. By examining the role of Reserve forces in America's civil-military relations, as they have evolved to the present day, we may be able to appreciate better the significance of the Reserves not only to the military, but to our political system and American society as a whole.