The Future of Nonprofit Human Services

(special) library services of the future

the future of library services must be considered against the background of a new self-conception of libraries and their definition and of a changing information society. in future, traditional library services will no longer be sufficient to ensure the survival of libraries. they will be required as a basic routine, but the proactivity of the library and its contribution to the overall enterpr...

Management for Nonprofit Organizations Entrepreneurship and Organizational Change in the Human Services

Linking Future Ecosystem Services and Future Human Well-being

Ecosystem services are necessary, yet not sufficient for human well-being (however defined). Insufficient access to the ecosystem provisioning service of food is a particularly important factor in the loss of human well-being, but all ecosystem services contribute in some way to well-being. Although perhaps long obvious to ecologists, the links between ecosystems and aspects of human well-being...

Human services restraint: its past and future.

Restraints and seclusion are used on people in institutions, children in schools, nursing home residents, general hospital patients, and other locations, but most often with people who have disabilities. Questions regarding legality, morality, and efficacy abound. These questions, compounded by the serious possible adverse consequences of restraints and seclusion, have commanded wide-ranging at...

reflections on the future of human civilization.

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