The Specifics of Forestry in the Context of Strategic Planning

Purpose: to analyze the specifics of forestry in order to improve methodological approaches to strategic planning of the industry. Discussion: the article is devoted to the problems of sectoral strategic planning in the field of forest relations. Results: it is concluded that the system of strategic forestry planning is characterized by long-term reforestation processes in conditions of conflict of short-term and long-term interests of subjects of forest relations with uncertainty of the forecast values of socio-economic and environmental parameters in the long term. In the applied aspect, an imbalance has been identified in the state forest management system at the junction of the intersectoral interface of forestry and the forest industry, which consists in a gap in programmatic and targeted planning at the level of state programs in terms of logging activities. The key characteristics of the specifics of forestry in the context of strategic planning are systematized and the basic principles and objectives of strategic forestry planning are formulated. The research can be used in the development of strategies, programs and projects in the field of forestry and the forest industry.