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Land Use Policy 36 (2014) 155–170 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Land Use Policy j o u r n a l h o m e p ag e: w w w. elsev /locate/lan dusepo l Multi-scale integrated analysis of rural Laos: Studying metabolic patterns of land uses across different levels and scales Tarik Serrano-Tovar a,∗ , Mario Giampietro b a Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technologies (ICTA), Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain b ICREA Research Professor, Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technologies (ICTA), Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: This paper presents an application of the Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Received 28 August 2012 Metabolism (MuSIASEM) approach to the analysis of rural land uses. Using secondary data on farm- Received in revised form 29 July 2013 ing systems in Laos, we illustrate how the concept of metabolic pattern can be used to establish links Accepted 3 August 2013 between the various indicators of performance of rural systems. To this purpose, we characterize the socioeconomic activities in rural Laos by a series of quantitative indicators defined across: (i) different Keywords: hierarchical levels of organization described at different scales (i.e. households, rural villages, admin- Laos