The province of British Columbia, Canada, began its community forests (CF) program by permitting a range of governance structures, both to allow flexibility and to discover the most appropriate structures for this new forestry tenure. The majority of municipalities participating in this program elected to hold their CF tenure through a separate corporation or limited-liability partnership arrangement, sometimes jointly with Indigenous communities or other parties. We consider the strengths and vulnerabilities of the most common ownership and governance structure adopted by municipalities, the municipally owned corporation (MOC), by reviewing the performance of three different MOCs against standards of democratic and effective decision-making, and the record of each of these three CFs in achieving its stated objectives. We hypothesize that ten key conditions increase the probability of success in meeting these standards and achieving goals. Our findings are also especially relevant to other governance of small-scale common pool resources situations with high-cost reporting requirements, poor regulatory oversight, and weak economies of scale. They add substance, nuance, and complexity to conditions previously identified in the co-management literature.

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评估不列颠哥伦比亚省市政所有的社区森林公司作为治理结构

加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省通过允许一系列治理结构开始其社区森林 (CF) 计划，既允许灵活性又为这一新的林业权属发现最合适的结构。参与该计划的大多数市政当局选择通过单独的公司或有限责任合伙安排，有时与原住民社区或其他方联合来持有他们的 CF 任期。我们通过根据民主和有效决策的标准审查三个不同 MOC 的表现，以及每一个的记录，来考虑市政当局采用的最常见的所有权和治理结构的优势和弱点，即市属公司 (MOC)。这三个 CF 实现其既定目标。我们假设十个关键条件会增加成功达到这些标准和实现目标的可能性。我们的发现还与其他对具有高成本报告要求、监管不力和规模经济薄弱的小规模公共池资源情况的治理特别相关。它们为先前在共同管理文献中确定的条件增加了实质、细微差别和复杂性。