Trans-border impacts on governance decentralisation and landscape in the High Mountains of Sinai Peninsula: review and alternatives

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Post the Egyptian National Reforms Revolution of 25 January 2011 CE, the need for a decentralised governance structure in the Arab Republic of Egypt&crucially in the remote trans-border desert and mountain regions&resurfaced as one of the demanding reforms for sustainable development. The review and discussion is conducted via the introduction and analysis of a proposed neo municipal governance structure ‘organizational blueprint’, while considering the current&2014-15 CE&socio-ecological and socioeconomic needs, on both tactic (i.e. implementation phases) and strategic levels (i.e. the job sector and the willingness of the young local generation in settling). The governance structure is introduced on two phases: i) initial elections and appointments semi-decentralisation phase ‘five-ten years’ (i.e. education and socioeconomic leverage); ii) micro-local financial resources decentralisation phase (i.e. full democratisation). Based on ten years of extensive research-survey work (i.e. Sinai Peninsula Research 2000-2013 CE), this paper presents a potential resolution for the trans-border status and its inter-impacting relation with the domestic one, and how both enforce legislative constraints on land use and ownership and the administrative boundaries. The neo municipal governance structure is a potentially feasible geo-based governance decentralisation alternative in practice, to be empirically implemented nationwide and in developing countries.

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