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Prior to joining the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin as Research Associate, Domenica Preysing spent several years in Egypt working as a researcher and consultant on local development.
Local Initiatives Prepare the Ground for Sustainable Development in the Middle East: Preliminary Lessons from Egypt
Using Egypt as a case study, this essay argues that the pathway to sustainability in the Middle East is to gradually reconcile competing economic development and environmental agendas. However, broader economic and political forces are inimical to setting about such a sustainable development trajectory. An exception to this adverse trend is the existence of innovative local development initiatives, which connect the livelihoods of the poor and marginalized with their physical environment in a productive way.
