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problemshed

noun

Etymology

From problem + shed, modelled after watershed (“a drainage basin”).

  1. derived from *skeyt-✻ — “to cut, part, divide, separate”
  2. inherited from *skaiþaną✻
  3. inherited from *skaiþan✻
  4. inherited from scēadan
  5. inherited from scheden
  6. compounded as problemshed — “problem + shed”

Definitions

  1. A region particularly relevant to certain ecological and socio-economic problems,…

    A region particularly relevant to certain ecological and socio-economic problems, especially when viewed as a unit of management and policymaking.

    • Moreover, because environmental problems themselves have indistinct boundaries, the problemshed itself is necessarily an artificial, indistinct, and impermanent entity.
    • These different patterns of livestock movement imply problemsheds encompassing an extent anywhere from two neighbouring conservancies all the way up to all of northern Kenya.
    • What can we learn from the World Bank and other third parties working to increase transboundary water cooperation in the Ganges-Brahmaputra problemshed?

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA