2024 Volume 29 Pages 75-91
Collaboration with different sectors is essential in management and conservation of biodiversity in a local area. And thus, the local biodiversity strategy takes important role to share future vision as well as challenges, and the way of biodiversity conservation in the region. The local biodiversity strategy, however, have not been well established, especially in basic local governments due to lack of people and money in the local government. Therefore, encouragement by citizen is necessary to formulate the local strategies. In Tokushima Prefecture, the "Tokushima Biodiversity Council", which was voluntarily organized by several citizen groups and researchers, played a major role in the collaborative process in establishing the "Tokushima Biodiversity Strategy". The council acted to organize public opinions and helped local government to establish local strategy, under consensus building. At the same time, the process was an opportunity for local people to get skills for managing workshop on consensus building, as well as to empower activities of themselves. In this paper, we focus on the actions of core members who have promoted and managed collaboration in the process and presents the detailed process of development of activities by the "Tokushima Biodiversity Council", and extracted the experimental rules to progress the activities, using the methodology of pattern language. As a result, 24 patterns were found and examined on their effectiveness for use as a technique for promoting the consensus building in collaborative establishment of the local biodiversity strategies in other regions.
