Study Guide - World Model United Nations
Study Guide - World Model United Nations
Study Guide - World Model United Nations
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This is an image of the blossoming tourist industry in the Caribbean. Tourism is one<br />
of the main areas that promote the sustainability of developing island nations. http://<br />
www.yourtravelchoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Sun-Sand-Sustainability.<br />
known as BPOA, is considered the main tool used to<br />
implement and instigate improvements in the state of<br />
small island developing nations. Though there are many<br />
issues relevant to discussion of small island nations,<br />
there are some major concepts that feature prominently<br />
in discussion and conferences relevant to this group of<br />
fifty-one nations.<br />
These concepts include the following: the issue of trade,<br />
the issue of promoting and sustaining tourism, increasing<br />
and maintaining biodiversity, handling climate<br />
change and coast maintenance, and the potential usage<br />
of renewable energy. These issues are particular to these<br />
nations mainly because they are surrounded by bodies<br />
of water, which is highly conducive to them being<br />
trade centers. Similarly, coastal maintenance and climate<br />
change are imperative to consider when discussing<br />
these nations because the livelihood of those who<br />
live in the coastal areas is greatly affected by the tides<br />
and changes in weather. Unlike in other types of coun-<br />
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tries, environmental issues<br />
are a large part of the developmental<br />
challenges SID<br />
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Because of these unique<br />
constraints, and due to the<br />
fact that they are so few in<br />
number and often diffuse<br />
geographically, it is difficult<br />
for these nations to develop<br />
successfully. This is the main<br />
issue that is to be discussed<br />
in this committee: how to<br />
promote the sustainability<br />
of these nations. Since<br />
these nations are small, they<br />
have been unable to support<br />
large infrastructures thus<br />
far and therefore struggle to<br />
consistently develop more<br />
advanced economies. The<br />
purpose of this committee<br />
is to critically analyze this<br />
issue and determine the<br />
most effective way to support<br />
these nations and their<br />
economies, while still maintaining and preserving their<br />
tenants.<br />
History and discussion of the problem<br />
Origin of the problem<br />
The central problem of small island developing (SID)<br />
nation development is finding ways to smoothly develop<br />
in the face of problems unique to island nations,<br />
which landlocked nations do not have to resolve.<br />
Fifty-one island nations fall into this category of small<br />
island developing nations, and all these nations share<br />
similar issues. These include confronting environmental<br />
disasters, managing tourism issues, and ensuring a<br />
successful and sustainable growth pattern. Due to limited<br />
access to resources, there have been many incidents<br />
in the past where these issues have created further problems<br />
that the nations were unable to adequately address.<br />
This has led to a call for attempts to directly address the<br />
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