Connecting collaboration to wellbeing in Harney County : an introductory guide to using social science in collaborative processes
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Date
2021
Authors
Davis, Emily Jane
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Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon
Abstract
Many 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.
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28 pages