The kopanitse-dispersed settlement meant mostly only a finishing touch in the settling anecumena until that time in remote, difficult to access and for permanent settlements unsuitable parts of cadastres within communities founded earlier. This has, to a certain extent, always represented an extreme, at present forming a disproportion to the centralizing tendencies of socio-economic development still prevailing in this country. The disproportion motioned results in a significant functional transformation of kopanitse-dispersed settlements and, in areas least favourable for permanent residence, this result in their gradual depopulation or extinction. However, in the last three decades there seems to appear a trend of "a secondary resettling" of the dilapidated housing fund, namely by people interested in the so called "secondary home", and, exceptionally even in permanent dwelling. As far as the relation of the kopanitse way of life and the environment are concerned, we are the witnessing a certain contradiction. While in the period of its rise and most intensive upsurge colonization waves present a perceptible exploitation-devastation affect on nature, today the kopanitse landscape is endangered to the most by negative accompanying sings of devastation and its changes to idle landscape. It is interesting to study the phenomenon of the kopanitse settlement also in connection with the conception of sustainable way of life in spite of the fact that from the viewpoint of many attributes of sustainability it is the negative features thet prevail here.