Environmental Management Practices in Rural Properties

Abstract

This study aimed to promote a theoretical discussion about environmental management in the universal context applied to rural areas in small farms and as specific objectives indicate the most common practices related to Rural Environmental Management and show the most flawed practices with the environment in rural properties. For this purpose a bibliographic survey on sustainability was used, followed by environmental management as a complex context for to articulate studies on rural environmental management, in other words, an application of the principles of sustainability in rural use. At last studies by other authors were used to indicate which are the most common practices, which are the wrong forms and are being applied.