The sustainable development of countryside requires an interconnection of the interests concerning social and economic development with the interests of environmental protection. At the same time, we may suppose that the current way of management in the landscape leading to environmental degradation and to the decrease in natural resources can hardly be a basis for sustainable economic development. In the Slovak conditions, mountain and submountain landscape ecosystems provide more cases of unsuitable management with natural resources. Regards rural areas, there exists a significant interrelation between economic activities and the quality of the environment. This interrelation should be reflected also with the creation of plans for the development of countryside. As an example of the interrelation between the development of the country and the creation of plans we used a concrete model territory of the Sobotište which is a wonderful example of the White-Carpatian kopanitsee settlement.