Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

problemshed

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: prob-lemshed
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

problemsheds (plural)

Questions

What does problemshed mean?: A region particularly relevant to certain ecological and socio-economic problems, especially when viewed as a unit of management and policymaking.
Where does problemshed come from?: From problem + shed, modelled after watershed (“a drainage basin”).

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