Articles | Volume 25, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-901-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-901-2021
Research article
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24 Feb 2021
Research article |  | 24 Feb 2021

A novel causal structure-based framework for comparing a basin-wide water–energy–food–ecology nexus applied to the data-limited Amu Darya and Syr Darya river basins

Haiyang Shi, Geping Luo, Hongwei Zheng, Chunbo Chen, Olaf Hellwich, Jie Bai, Tie Liu, Shuang Liu, Jie Xue, Peng Cai, Huili He, Friday Uchenna Ochege, Tim Van de Voorde, and Philippe de Maeyer

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Aral Basin data H. Shi, G. Luo, S. Liu, and J. Bai https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13516472

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Some river basins are considered to be very similar because they have a similar background such as a transboundary, facing threats of human activities. But we still lack understanding of differences under their general similarities. Therefore, we proposed a framework based on a Bayesian network to group watersheds based on similarity levels and compare the causal and systematic differences within the group. We applied it to the Amu and Syr Darya River basin and discussed its universality.