Political Science Course Report: Analysis of Weeks 2-9 Topics

This report provides a comprehensive overview of a Political Science course spanning nine weeks. The course delves into various critical topics, beginning with ecological relations and their intersection with political factors, exploring the decline in agricultural returns and its potential impact on over...Read More

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Table of Contents
Week 2.................................................................................................................................2
Week 3.................................................................................................................................2
Week 4.................................................................................................................................3
Week 5.................................................................................................................................4
Week 6.................................................................................................................................5
Week 7.................................................................................................................................5
Week 8.................................................................................................................................6
Week 9.................................................................................................................................7

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Week 2
The lectures of the second week were focused majorly on the areas that pertain to the
wherein the ecological relations might fit in with the political factors. The experts on this issue
have put forth the viewpoint that the decline in the agricultural returns might lead to the
conditions wherein the agricultural demands might exceed the supply that is being supported by
the growers and the farmers. This might lead to the overpopulation that might face conditions
like starving. The activities that refer to the feeding of the total population of the world might
pose to be a huge challenge for the community that is responsible for the dealing with the issues
that are related to providing food to the concerned sections of the world population. The course
has helped me to learn the fact that the life of the peasants lacks dynamics and is hugely static in
nature. The course has helped in the understanding of the fact that there exists a number of
barriers in the matters that pertain to the matters that deal with the ecological problems that
might affect the environment. These might refer to the theoretical ideas that relate to the ways in
which the nature and the natural habitats of a region might affect the agricultural aspects of the
area. The course has helped me to acknowledge the fact that the interference of science in the
relationship between nature and mankind might lead to the conditions of a deepened
dehumanization within the social structure.
Week 3
This part of my course dealt with the economic development and the class structure that
existed in Europe prior to the industrial era. The concerned article that was used within the
materials for the course refers to the dealt with the class structure and majorly the two different
aspects of concept that are unified in the historical aspects while being different in the analytical
sense of the concept. The course has further helped me to understand the fact that the economic

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building of the social structure of the country are dependent on the structure that is followed by
the concerned society in the matters that pertain to the relations that are maintained by the
various classes that are present within the concerned society, and the power relations that exist
among the various classes that are present within the society. These factors tend to put froth an
analysis of the ways in which the concerned society might be affected by the changes in the
commercial matter as well as the demographical matters that are prevalent within the society.
The studies on the socio-economic changes that have taken place within the medieval Europe.
The demographical model that had been put across in the course has helped me to gain
knowledge on the matters that deal with the relationship that exist within the various classes that
had been present within the then society. The course has helped me to learn about the class
structure and the development of the economy in the agrarian society.
Week 4
This part of the course dealt with the societal advancements from the viewpoint of the
industrialization of the agricultural aspects and the matters that deal with the matters that pertain
to the food that were available to the residents of the society. The readings also helped me to
gain knowledge on the inequality that was prevalent within the ecological exchanges that were
present within the then society. The ecological exchanges were related to the shift that had
occurred from the mercantilism. This shift led to the conditions wherein Britain became the
major gateway for the integration of the industrial capital into the global market and thereby
facilitated the reorganization of the global economy on the political grounds. The course also
helped me to gain more insight into the factors that pertain to the ecological footprint of the
measures that were needed for the production of the consumer goods. The unit further helped me
in understanding the fact that the foundations of the industrialization of the agriculture and the

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food industry has stemmed from the openness of the markets and the construction of an
internationally acclaimed method of labor that had been present within all the operative markets
of Britain. The other factors that were responsible for the afore-mentioned advancements are
related to the colonial expansions that were maintained by Britain. The course has also helped
me to maintain the matters that competition that has been existent among the traders in the
capturing of the export markets that were present in the then society.
Week 5
The unit that of the concerned week had helped me to learn about the ways in which the
surpluses of the US food industry were implemented in order to build the concerned states that
were in the need of the development. The unit has further helped me to strengthen my knowledge
on the facts that were related to the sustainability of the developmental practices that helped in
meeting the then needs of the society while looking out for the needs of the future generations of
the then society. The major source of these practices was related to the erosion of the naturally
available base of resources. The unit further helped me know about the fact that the poverty was
one of the major causes as well as the effect of the multitude of environmental problems that
existed within the country. The sustainable development might be referred to as one of the
mainstream discourses in the field of political studies that exists within the global economy and
politics. The unit in discussion has further helped me in the matters that are related to the concept
of the theories on the modernization of the ecology of the world. The Ecological Modernization
Theory majorly throws light on the contributions that might contribute in a positive manner to
the mitigation of the degradation of the environment with the help of the changes in the
technological aspects and the enhancement of the efficiencies. The unit also assisted in the

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knowledge on the fact that the economic developments have impacts on the environment that
increase in the initial days and decrease with the course of time.
Week 6
The unit that had been discussed in this week relates to the political authorities that are
related to the environmental issues that were present in the recent society. This unit of the course
throws light in the present conditions of the environment that is prevalent in the Australian
society. The unit helps the concerned readers to reflect on the matters that are related to the co-
existence of the natural aspects within the territories of the state of Australia and the
technological advancements that are followed by the various members of the Australian society.
The concerned unknit also sheds light on the matters that are related to the various theories that
pertain to the social movements that were present during the recent times within the society. The
unit has helped in the matters that pertain to the sociological responses that might be put forth
against the concept of environmentalism that exists within the society. The unit has also helped
me in gaining knowledge on the fact that the relational approaches might help in the exploration
of the ways and manners that are implemented through the localized practices that are related to
the networking activities that are practiced through the various social movements that are
implemented in the matters related to the theories of environmentalism. The unit further
increases the credibility and rationality of the uses of the chemical ingredients over the use of the
natural ones.
Week 7
The unit of the seventh week related to the relationships that exists within the political
communications, the regulations and the political market that is present and active within the
Australian territories. This unit discusses the impact on the environmental matters and the

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political factors. This unit helped me to realize the relationship that exists between the
sustainable development of the country and the energy sources that are active within the country.
The study on this unit has helped me to understand the differences that exist between the
concepts of the security factors that are existent within the territory. The unit further throws light
on the factor that deals with the energy poverty or the factor that deals with the inability of the
household that deals with the inability of the concerned family in order to secure a certain level
as well as the quality of the energy services that might prove to be sufficient in the dealings with
the various needs that pertain to the materialistic as well as the static nature of the concerned
needs. The unit further throws further light on the type of fuel that is present in the Australian
markets and are popular within the society of Australia. This unit has helped me in the matters
that deal with the present status of the sources of energy that have been in use in the Australian
society. The unit helps to focus on the alternatives of the primary energy sources that are present
within the Australian society.
Week 8
The unit that has been put forth for consideration deals with a case study that is based on
the various types of natural gases that are present as well as widely used in the Australian
society. The materials that were studied in this unit deals with a case study on the coal seam gas
that is being used within the territories of Australia. The Coal Seam Gas or the CSG is an
unconventional gas. The unconventional gases might refer to those gases that might need the
employment of the advanced methods of production that are implemented in the production of
the natural gas. The production of the Coal Seam Gas or the CSG might involve the method of
fracking. The fracking method refers to the methods related to the fracturing of the layers coal
that is found below the surface of the earth. The process of fracking deals with the creation of

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wells that are used to collect the natural gas that is formed due to the high temperature below the
earth surface. The study of the unit has helped me to gain knowledge on the fact that though the
creation of the wells and the establishment of the system do not take up much time, the wells are
capable of producing a huge amount of Coal Seam Gas or the CSG that might last for years. This
unit has helped me to gain knowledge on the various alternative energy sources that might be
utilized in the future.
Week 9
The study materials of this unit cover the issues that pertain to the acceptance of the
genetically modified crops among the residents of the society who dwell below the poverty lines.
The acceptance of the genetically modified cotton in the Makhathini Flats area of South Africa
has resulted in the conditions wherein the advocates of the production of genetically modified
crops could back the fact that the field of agricultural biotechnology might prove to be beneficial
for the farmers who own smaller holdings. The acceptance of the genetically modified cotton
was further used by these advocates in order to inspire the farmers residing in the other parts of
the continent to follow the concerned technique in the production of the crops. The adoption of
the genetically modified cotton has helped in the matters that dealt with the access of the
concerned farmers to the varied amounts of credits and the markets wherein the products might
be sold to the concerned clientele. This has helped me to gather knowledge on the benefits of the
interventions of technology on the matters that pertain to the agriculture. The genetical
modifications on the various crops might help in the conditions that pertain to the economic
contracts that are based majorly on the political and the social aspects that are involved in the
matters that pertain to the needs and the demands of the crops in the concerned area. The

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political economy that is gained from the agricultural biotechnology also helps in the
improvement of the social conditions of the residents of the area.