problemshed

English

Etymology

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

Noun

problemshed (plural problemsheds)

  1. (environmental management, chiefly hydrology) A region particularly relevant to certain ecological and socio-economic problems, especially when viewed as a unit of management and policymaking.
    • 2009, H. Doremus, “CALFED and the quest for optimal institutional fragmentation”, in Environmental Science & Policy, volume 12, number 6, pages 729–732:
      Moreover, because environmental problems themselves have indistinct boundaries, the problemshed itself is necessarily an artificial, indistinct, and impermanent entity.
    • 2015, E. Ontiri, L. W. Robinson, North lowland Ewaso Ngiro rangelands: Initial system analysis: International Livestock Research Institute report to the LGACC project, page 1:
      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.
    • 2017, P. Hanasz, “Muddy waters: International actors and transboundary water cooperation in the Ganges-Brahmaputra problemshed”, in Water Alternatives, volume 10, number 2, pages 459–474:
      What can we learn from the World Bank and other third parties working to increase transboundary water cooperation in the Ganges-Brahmaputra problemshed?
    • 2022, A. Nicol, L. Debevec, S. O. Ayaru, “Water and complex problemsheds in Karamoja, Uganda”, in Water International, volume 47, number 6, pages 952–968:
      Issues of livestock survival lie at the heart of the Karamoja–Turkana Complex (KTC) – the problemshed at the centre of water management challenges in the region.
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