Purpose of the research: To identify the gaps between the rhetoric and reality of the role of citizen participation and its role in maintenance and monitoring of heritages and resources (including biodiversity monitoring), we analyzed the discourse of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS) at municipality level.

Methods: As an analytical framework, text mining is applied to interviews of officers at the municipal level of GIAHS in Noto which was amongst the first sites in Japan. The identification of such gap is critical for sustainability and to prevent conflicts from tourism, agriculture or educations.

Results: The results reveal that (1) there is a gap between the official goals of that designation at the international level and local needs, (2) role of citizens is emphasized in the applications and action plans at rhetorical level but remain rather limited in practice and that (3) municipalities composing the GIAHS often have different priorities, even within the very same GIAHS sites, some municipalities even calling themselves “just a transition point to other destination municipalities.”

Conclusions: It is critical for municipal officers to collaborate with various stakeholders, especially citizens. As such, citizen science is a bottom-up approach to promote biodiversity conservation and facilitate GIAHS managements.

研究目的： 为了确定公民参与作用的言辞和现实之间的差距及其在遗产和资源的维护和监测（包括生物多样性监测）中的作用，我们分析了全球重要农业遗产系统（GIAHS）的论述在市政一级。

方法： 作为分析框架，文本挖掘被应用于在Noto的GIAHS市级官员的访谈，这是日本最早的站点之一。找出这种差距对于可持续性和防止旅游业，农业或教育之间的冲突至关重要。

结果： 结果表明：（1）在国际上该名称的官方目标与当地需求之间存在差距；（2）在修辞性的申请和行动计划中强调了公民的作用，但在实践以及（3）组成GIAHS的市政当局通常具有不同的优先级，即使在GIAHS站点相同的地方，一些市政当局甚至称自己为“只是向其他目的地城市的过渡点”。

结论： 市政官员与各种利益相关者，尤其是公民合作至关重要。因此，公民科学是自下而上的方法，以促进生物多样性保护和促进GIAHS管理。