Applications of the MuSIASEM approach to study changes in the metabolic pattern of Catalonia
Sorman Hadiye, Alevgul (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Giampietro, Mario (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Biològica i Ambiental)
Lobo Aleu, Agustín (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Espanya). Institut de Ciències de la Terra Jaume Almera)
Serrano-Tovar, Tarik (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)

Publicació:	Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals 2009
Descripció:	29 p.
Resum:	This document presents an integrated analysis of the performance of Catalonia based on an analysis of how the energy consumption (measured at the societal level for the Catalan Society) is used within both the productive sectors of the economy and the household, to generate added value, jobs, and to guarantee a given level of material standard of living to the population. The trends found in Catalonia are compared to the trends of other European Countries to contextualize the performance of Catalonia with respect to other societies that have followed different paths of economic development. The first part of the document consists of the Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism (MuSIASEM) approach that has been used to provide this integrated analysis of Catalan Society across different scales (starting from an analysis of the specific sectors of the Catalan economy as an Autonomous Community and scaling up to an intra-regional (European Union 14) comparison) and across different dimensions of analyses of energy consumption coupled with added value generation. Within the scope of this study, we observe the various trajectories of changes in the metabolic pattern for Catalonia and the EU14 countries in the Paid Work Sectors composed of namely, the Agricultural Sector, the Productive Sector and the Services and Government Sector also in comparison with the changes in the household sector. The flow intensities of the exosomatic energy and the added value generated for each specific sector are defined per hour of human activity, thus characterized as exosomatic energy (MJ/hour) (or Exosomatic Metabolic Rate) and added value (€/hour) (Economic Labour Productivity) across multiple levels. Within the second part of the document, the possible usage of the MuSIASEM approach to land use analyses (using a multi-level matrix of categories of land use) has been conducted.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Col·lecció:	Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals. Reports on Environmental Sciences
Col·lecció:	Reports on Environmental Sciences ; 2009-4
Document:	Informe
Matèria:	Desenvolupament sostenible ; Aspectes econòmics ; Indicadors ambientals ; Mètodes estadístics ; Energia ; Consum ; Anàlisi ; Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism

29 p, 1.6 MB

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