2018-07-312018-07-312018-02-23https://ri.ucsal.br/handle/prefix/465The environmental issue is of great relevance, as the quality of life, well-being and life itself are linked to the ecologically balanced environment which must be preserved for present and future generations. As the exploration of nature as a natural resource, legislations around the world have turned to the protection of ecosystems with the scope of protecting the good of common use and belonging to the collectivity. The CF of 1988 made it mandatory for Municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants to prepare the Master Plan as an instrument for municipal planning and development. This obligation reaches the Municipality of São Felipe in Bahia, considered a rural municipality due to its population, productive and socio-cultural characteristics, which presents vegetation cover of forest fragment of the Atlantic Forest biome, with emphasis on Mata Ciliar. The Sanfelipense population needs a Master Plan that addresses the reality of the issues of infrastructure, social, environmental, cultural and economic development from the perspective of socio-environmental development. The methodological approach of the research is qualitative with local population engagement based on and adapted from the Qualitative Indicator of Metropolitan Rurality - IQRM developed by Alencar (2006) showing the coexistence between rural and urban ways of life for local socio-environmental development. In the methodology of procedures, in order to access, systematize and discuss the Master Plan in the scope of socio-environmental development, a bibliographical research was first undertaken in books, articles and other scientific sources and documentary research through analysis of legislation and other documents, besides of visits to the municipality for recognition, semi-structured interviews with local government agents and unstructured interviews with the population based on the 2007 Master Plan. The study focused on the analysis of the potential effectiveness of the Master Plan for socio-environmental development in planning Municipality in São Felipe, facing its rural and urban dynamics, considering that the agrarian issue is an environmental issue and requires articulation between federative entities, aiming at quality of life and well-being for citizens in communion with the environment which showed the insufficiency of the Master Plan.Acesso AbertoDesenvolvimento socioambientalPlano diretorMunicípioRuralUrbanoMeio ambienteMaster planSocial-environmental developmentMunicipalityRuralUrbanEnvironmentDissertaçãoPlanejamento Urbano e Regional/Planejamento Ambiental