1.1 Parks objectives in transformation: What are parks for and why do we want them?
While environmental protection implicitly (but rarely explicitly) hovers in the background of protection rationales, other aspects come forth (i.e. economic development, preserving cultural identity and landscapes etc.). Hence we ask: is nature protection what it seems to be or needs the concept to be rethought? Living in the Anthropocene we must provocatively ask ourselves if and how a segregative approach to nature protection still makes sense. We want to raise the awareness to what nature protection actually means, how it could be envisaged (differently), and invite critical contributions.