Human occupation development in the High Mountains of Sinai Peninsula, Egypt with Alpine and Himalayan reflections in the light of rural-urban development ‘socio-economy’, semi-arid watershed management ‘cocio-ecology’ and land use policy ‘governance’

In theory and practice, centralization, sub-optimization, and transborder crisscross culture have been extensively discussed over decades with limited progress on the interdisciplinary level in the developing countries (precisely in the remote semi-arid highland regions: the High Mountains of Sinai Peninsula). Post the Egyptian National Reforms Revolution of January 25, 2011 CE, the need for a decentralized governance structure in the Arab Republic of Egypt surfaced once again as one of the very demanding reforms for socio-economic and socio-ecological sustainable development., accounting to several domestic (e.g. social strategy, behaviour and stratification; traditional tribal system ‘kinship seniority’ and alliances; social homogeneity subdivisions; survival strategies and interaction; urbanization, trade and mobility; productivity and resources exploitation) and external ones (e.g. cross political and economic interest, and warfare). A Comparative Corporate Governance Model ‘CCGM’ based on three integrated sub-models is conducted to identify, address, and feasibly resolve the previously discussed issues: 1 a newly modified timeline-based version of Quality Function Deployment ‘QFD’, addressing the socioeconomic aspects and needs (i.e. issues of interest; domestic and global practice); 2 heritage-based arid/semi-arid watershed management model, utilizing the heritage economic-conservation and experimental archeology methodologies and techniques as the core for a low cost model; 3 dynamic sub-monitoring model, enabling multilevel decision making actions (i.e. predictive/preventive); all under routine and breaking governance events In practice, the high mountains act as a system under pre-defined criteria. The CCGM resolves the legislative and administrative constraints (e.g. land use and ownership) by decentralizing the planning and decision making process on the micro-local/municipal and macro-regional/governorate levels. It is an interdisciplinary approach towards natural-cultural heritage conservation and preservation under the sustainability and decrease theories while being subjected to a domestic profit maximization trend. It is conducted inSinai Peninsula with reflections on the Alpine and Himalayan contexts.