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MULTI-SCALE INTEGRATED ANALYSIS FORSUSTAINABLE POLICIES: ROMANIAN SOCIOECONOMICMETABOLISMRaluca I. IorgulescuInstitute for Economic Forecasting, Casa Academiei Romane, Bucharest, Romaniaraluca_i@lycos.comLucian-Liviu AlbuInstitute for Economic Forecasting, Casa Academiei Romane, Bucharest, Romaniaalbul@ipe.roCristian StanicaInstitute for Economic Forecasting, Casa Academiei Romane, Bucharest, Romaniastanica_cris@yahoo.comFunding for this research was provided by: FP7-SSH-2007-1Project no.217213 SMILEABSTRACT Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis <strong>of</strong> Societal <strong>and</strong> Ecological Metabolism (MuSIASEM) isa method developed in relation to the field <strong>of</strong> science for governance <strong>and</strong> it can be used to check therobustness <strong>and</strong> the relevance <strong>of</strong> models, datasets, <strong>and</strong> forecasting using integrated biophysical,economic, social <strong>and</strong> demographic analyses across different hierarchical levels <strong>and</strong> scales. This papershows for a specific case how structural changes in various economic sectors, associated to thetransition from a centrally planned economy to a free market with European Union membership, canbe related to socioeconomic metabolic variations. The Romanian exosomatic metabolism is discussedover a period <strong>of</strong> seven years (1999-2006) for sectors/industries on disaggregated hierarchical levels;the focus is on the analysis <strong>of</strong> industry-level data presented in correlation with microeconomicchanges. We consider the following subsectors for the productive sector: mining <strong>and</strong> energy <strong>and</strong>manufacture <strong>and</strong> building; in support <strong>of</strong> our idea <strong>of</strong> structural change connected socioeconomicmetabolism changes, the paper provides microeconomic details for some industries in the manufacturesector.Keywords: MuSIASEM, Romania, societal metabolism, energy, manufacture67

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