Davis, Emily Jane2021-04-212021-04-212021https://hdl.handle.net/1794/2615728 pagesMany communities in the rural western United States seek the ecological, economic, and social wellbeing and resilience of their people and landscapes. In Harney County, Oregon, several community collaborative groups work towards this goal with backbone support from the High Desert Partnership (HDP), a local nonprofit organization. Increasingly, these collaborative participants have recognized that although they have social and economic goals in the pursuit of community wellbeing, their collaborative processes, particularly in the natural resource groups, have not regularly included social science to the same extent as biophysical science. This guide is intended to support these practitioners by increasing their capacity to utilize social science in their collaborative processes to help them achieve their community wellbeing goals. In the spirit of community-led collaboration, it is not prescriptive about how collaboration should work, nor exactly how social science must be used. It introduces concepts, examples, and ideas that practitioners may bring into their work as they see fit. This guide provides starting points for understanding the realm of social science as it relates to collaboration, and offers resources for future learning, rather than attempting to be a comprehensive course on the topic.en-USCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USConsensus (Social sciences)Well-beingCommunity lifeNatural resources--Co-managementHarney County (Or.)High Desert PartnershipWorking Paper