Rural landscape analyses as a spatial planning tool on the example of the Puchaczów Commune. The paper presents key landscape analyses enabling identification and diagnosis of the environment, and consequently helping to formulate the principles of sustainable development for specific areas. The territorial scope of the research covered the rural commune of Puchaczów, located in the Lubelskie Voivodeship, where, due to the natural conditions, in the second half of the 20th century the mining industry developed. The study included an analysis of land cover, a simplified analysis of ecotopes, environmental hazards and ecological structures. The result of the above research is the analysis of the tendencies of changes taking place in the commune, which indicates specific problem areas and, as a consequence, allows to propose appropriate directions of spatial development. In the Puchaczów Commune, since the 1970s, the main factor determining the character of the landscape has been the activity of the hard coal mine, which has transformed, inter alia, relief and hydrosphere. The measures proposed in the applications are aimed at stopping the negative effects of mining activities by strengthening the natural system of the commune.