Governments Often Fail to Adopt Policies That Would Encourage Sustainable

Multiple Choice

Governments often fail to adopt policies that would encourage sustainable management and protect ecosystem goods and services.This failure happens for all of the following reasons except that

A) ecosystem services are difficult to evaluate and quantify.
B) people who stand to profit from ecosystem services may have no incentive to pay for them.
C) owners of converted ecosystems often derive economic benefits from their intensive use or development.
D) ecosystem services provide little value for the money they would cost.
E) people are not aware of ecosystem services or take them for granted.