ABSTRACT
Nature parks in Europe have slightly different names and meanings. For example, in Austria a nature park is labeled as a landscape' with its legal status based on the decree of a landscape protection or nature conservation area. It is a protected landscape area, which has developed through the interaction of man with nature and which has no or little wilderness. In Austria, nature parks do not belong to any official zoning. From a historical perspective, the development of nature parks in Austria is similar to other European countries, including Italy, France/Germany. From the beginning nature parks were not representatives of the classic-static paradigm, although conservation was in some parks the main objective: this was also true for the Nature Park tscher-Tormuer. The local population from the region tscher-Tormuer hardly recognizes regional development and education as objectives in the development of the nature park. Thus today, nature parks have become a factor for integrative regional development.
