The study on the State of Forests and Forest Management
in Uzbekistan aims to present the forest resources and
the forest sector of the country, including trends in, and
pressures on, the resource, to describe the policies and
institutions for the forest sector and to list the major
challenges the sector faces, and the policy responses in
place or planned. The study is a cooperative effort of the
author, the joint UNECE/FAO Forestry and Timber Section
and national experts. The study is done with the use of the
best available data. It attempts to cover all dimensions of
sustainable forest management.