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.

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This reason is not a common one for governments to fail to adopt policies to protect ecosystem services. In fact, many studies have shown that the economic benefits of ecosystem services can outweigh the costs of their protection. The other options (A, B, C, and E) are all common reasons for government failure to adopt these policies.

Governments Often Fail to Adopt Policies That Would Encourage Sustainable