There is a great potential to develop and implement such strategies at the regional level, where tight social networks and initiatives can be linked with national and international carbon management programmes. Moreover, regionalised global climate change data are now available to support strategy processes profoundly influenced by regional specificities.

The project elaborates a process design for developing regional portfolios of climate change adaptation and mitigation measures and applies this design in a participative strategy process for an alpine, rural district in Upper Styria (Murau).

Building on previous research on vision building (Leitbilder) in Murau and other regions with high awareness regarding localised sustainable energy systems, Murau is expected to provide good practice and institutional starting points that should be assessed with regard to their transferability.