Analysis and environmental diagnosis of rural habitat in arid zones of the Province of San Juan, Argentina

Abstract

This paper presents the environmental analysis on rural communities on arid zones of the province of San Juan. The objective of this research is to perform a diagnosis and to develop proposals for future improvements on this region. The analysis was carried out at two different scales: one on the natural environment (macro scale), and another one, on the humanized environment (micro scale), represented by the productive farms, considered as the core of the rural domestic and productive habitat. This research allowed a characterization of the environment and an understanding of the rules that structure the rural habitat in San Juan, and also to perform an evaluation and diagnosis of this type of rural habitat.