摘要：The article discusses the participatory elaboration of strategies for sustainable regionaldevelopment in an Alpine tourist region in Austria to cope with global change effects evolving locally,considering climate change, economic change as well as (local) societal change. Local stakeholders in anAlpine village in the Montafon region contributed in workshops to achieve the final results: participantteams conducted system analyses of the regional system to explore key elements of the region. Narrativescenarios described possible positive and negative development trends and indicated the critical issuescontrolling future development; 3D-images of landscape transition simulations show the consequences ofcertain development directions. Alternative development directions supported the local stakeholders toelaborate regional development strategies. In the end, the scientist team derived generic strategies for Alpineregions based on the locally developed strategy bundle. The article presents the intention, progress andoutcome of the participatory approach and elaborates the potential to derive generic strategies from localones and discusses the possibly occurring conflicts regarding cross-scale transfers of these local strategies.Overall, tourism was seen as a key element for future regional development, which can on the one handderogate Alpine regions and is on the other hand threatened by climate change and diminution of landscapeattractiveness. The suggested development strategies will help to cope with global change issues mitigatingthe negative consequences on the local society and environment
关键词：alpine regions development; participatory scenario approach; regional development; generic;strategies
