MuSIASEM or Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism,[1][2][3][4] is a method of accounting used to analyse socio-ecosystems and to simulate possible patterns of development.
[4] The purpose of MuSIASEM is to characterize metabolic patterns of socio-ecological systems (how and why humans use resources and how this use depends on and affects the stability of the ecosystems embedding the society).
This integrated approach allows for a quantitative implementation of the DPSIR framework (Drivers, Pressures, States, Impacts and Responses) and application as a decision support tool.
[30][31] Moreover, the methodology has been applied to assess societal metabolism at the municipal,[32][33] regional (rural Laos,[34] Catalonia,[35] China,[36][37] Europe,[38] Galapagos Islands[39]), national,[40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47] and supernational[16] scale.
[50] Finally, several master courses about the application to the approach to energy system in various Southern African Universities have been elaborated under the Participia project.