Meaning of problemshed | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

“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?”

“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.”

CEFR level