title: Material and methods creator: Kahiluoto, Helena creator: Kakriainen, Salla creator: Granstedt, Artur creator: Sumelius, John subject: Markets and trade subject: Recycling, balancing and resource management description: This chapter introduces the cases and the disciplinary approaches and methods. The BERAS study had a case study approach, and this report presents the interdisciplinary synthesis of the multidisciplinary study. Ultimately, the BERAS study attempted to clarify the potential impacts of enhanced localisation and recycling rather than to compare the average status of the present local, organic food systems and organic farms with the dominant food systems and agriculture. contributor: Kahiluoto, Helena contributor: Berg, Per G. contributor: Granstedt, Artur contributor: Fischer, Holger contributor: Thomsson, Olof date: 2006 type: Report chapter type: NonPeerReviewed format: application/pdf identifier: http://orgprints.org/8776/1/BERAS4.pdf identifier: Kahiluoto, Helena; Kakriainen, Salla; Granstedt, Artur and Sumelius, John (2006) Material and methods. In: Kahiluoto, Helena; Berg, Per G.; Granstedt, Artur; Fischer, Holger and Thomsson, Olof (Eds.) The power of local - sustainable food systems around the Baltic sea : interdisciplinary synthesis of the BERAS project, pp. 23-31. relation: http://orgprints.org/8776/