2021 Volume 20 Issue 2 Pages 265-269
At the object area in Kitasaga, Kyoto City, specific efforts have been made to preserve the rural landscape part of the Historic Landscape Special Preservation Area with the participation of various entities just as local growers, private companies, NPOs, local government and academia. Some of our schemes are to establish the brand, Kokonsagamai Rice, by improving the soil with tips from bamboo, a local specialty, and utilizing elephant compost, from the Kyoto City Zoo with the help of wisdom by the entities. The improved quality in our rice helped make progress both in the branding and the positive sentiment of local growers for continuing cultivation. However, each entity withstands its heterogeneity, inducing detrimental dissonance. E.Ostrom suggests that increasing heterogeneity attenuates the group’s consensus building prowess and mutual trust. This initiative analyzed the reasons why the group involved successfully worked up each subject and the activities of mediators culminated in the change in their consciousness, despite its high heterogeneity.
