A Recent Study Showed That in Situations Involving Ecosystem Service

question 58

Multiple Choice

A recent study showed that in situations involving ecosystem service trade-offs, private interests usually win over public interests, and provisioning services win over more general services (such as regulating, supporting, or cultural) .For example, harvesting a forest for timber wins over maintaining the forest for carbon storage, and agriculture wins over maintaining land for clean water and biodiversity.This suggests that in the future, we can expect to see

• A) more use of regulating, supporting, and cultural services.
• B) more careful consideration of the value of ecosystem services.
• C) better methods for calculating the value of ecosystem services.
• D) more use of economically profitable provisioning services.
• E) replacement of ecosystem services by technological services.

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