Abstract. Natural resource management is an indispensable part of the economy, while land use as an objective continuous multi-purpose process of land use by society acts as its most important component subsystem. Land resources are used in all spheres of society's activity-economic, social and environmental. Under the global model of economic growth, the load on natural resources has reached its maximum size. In some regions of the world and landscape ecosystems around the world, the risk of environmental disaster was growing. Objectively, there is a need to move from a model of economic growth to a model of sustainable development, including sustainable environmental management. Land use is the most important component of the environmental management system. In order to translate the inefficient system of land use in Uzbekistan to the model of its sustainable development, the main criteria and principles were studied and established, and the definition of sustainable land use was given.