Environmental Sustainability of Rural Properties

Our objective was to assess the environmental impacts of land use in two regions of the state of Acre-Brazil, comparing the practices of "traditional settlers" (mostly descendants of rubber tappers) and "recent settlers" (migrants from the south and southeast regions of the country). The environmental sustainability of rural properties was estimated by the "System of Land Suitability for Environmental Recovery - SATRA" (WADT et al., 2004), which compared current land use and prescribed use by a set of environmental and socioeconomic performance indicators, covering four dimensions: agricultural, biodiversity, economic and social.