Economics and Resources - AP Environmental Science

While taxpayers initially foot the bill for a superfund cleanup, the company responsible is financially obligated to reimburse the EPA for the cost of cleanup. Individual employees are not accountable, but the cost of funding an environmental cleanup can bankrupt a firm, leaving their employees jobless.

Pure phosphorus cannot be found in nature due to it's reactive nature. It can be purified and isolated in laboratories, but generally, you can find phosphorous in baking powder, soil, fireworks, and it often is a component of minerals.

The correct answer choice is "regulating services." A regulating service is any service that minimizes negative impacts to humans (e.g. flood control), or facilitates human production (e.g. honeybees that pollinate crops).

Tragedy of the Commons by definition is when individuals act in their own interest towards a common resource (fish, timber, buffalo, etc.) which, when done by everybody, is not in the best interest of conservation. The result is maximized short-term profit for all parties but also depletion of the resource.

The decline of the New England cod fishery was due to many individuals harvesting for their own personal profit with no consideration toward the collective impact on the fish population, and the result was a population decline that has yet to recover.

While taxpayers initially foot the bill for a superfund cleanup, the company responsible is financially obligated to reimburse the EPA for the cost of cleanup. Individual employees are not accountable, but the cost of funding an environmental cleanup can bankrupt a firm, leaving their employees jobless.

Pure phosphorus cannot be found in nature due to it's reactive nature. It can be purified and isolated in laboratories, but generally, you can find phosphorous in baking powder, soil, fireworks, and it often is a component of minerals.

The correct answer choice is "regulating services." A regulating service is any service that minimizes negative impacts to humans (e.g. flood control), or facilitates human production (e.g. honeybees that pollinate crops).

Tragedy of the Commons by definition is when individuals act in their own interest towards a common resource (fish, timber, buffalo, etc.) which, when done by everybody, is not in the best interest of conservation. The result is maximized short-term profit for all parties but also depletion of the resource.

The decline of the New England cod fishery was due to many individuals harvesting for their own personal profit with no consideration toward the collective impact on the fish population, and the result was a population decline that has yet to recover.

While taxpayers initially foot the bill for a superfund cleanup, the company responsible is financially obligated to reimburse the EPA for the cost of cleanup. Individual employees are not accountable, but the cost of funding an environmental cleanup can bankrupt a firm, leaving their employees jobless.

Pure phosphorus cannot be found in nature due to it's reactive nature. It can be purified and isolated in laboratories, but generally, you can find phosphorous in baking powder, soil, fireworks, and it often is a component of minerals.

The correct answer choice is "regulating services." A regulating service is any service that minimizes negative impacts to humans (e.g. flood control), or facilitates human production (e.g. honeybees that pollinate crops).

Tragedy of the Commons by definition is when individuals act in their own interest towards a common resource (fish, timber, buffalo, etc.) which, when done by everybody, is not in the best interest of conservation. The result is maximized short-term profit for all parties but also depletion of the resource.

The decline of the New England cod fishery was due to many individuals harvesting for their own personal profit with no consideration toward the collective impact on the fish population, and the result was a population decline that has yet to recover.

While taxpayers initially foot the bill for a superfund cleanup, the company responsible is financially obligated to reimburse the EPA for the cost of cleanup. Individual employees are not accountable, but the cost of funding an environmental cleanup can bankrupt a firm, leaving their employees jobless.

Pure phosphorus cannot be found in nature due to it's reactive nature. It can be purified and isolated in laboratories, but generally, you can find phosphorous in baking powder, soil, fireworks, and it often is a component of minerals.

The correct answer choice is "regulating services." A regulating service is any service that minimizes negative impacts to humans (e.g. flood control), or facilitates human production (e.g. honeybees that pollinate crops).

Tragedy of the Commons by definition is when individuals act in their own interest towards a common resource (fish, timber, buffalo, etc.) which, when done by everybody, is not in the best interest of conservation. The result is maximized short-term profit for all parties but also depletion of the resource.

The decline of the New England cod fishery was due to many individuals harvesting for their own personal profit with no consideration toward the collective impact on the fish population, and the result was a population decline that has yet to recover.

While taxpayers initially foot the bill for a superfund cleanup, the company responsible is financially obligated to reimburse the EPA for the cost of cleanup. Individual employees are not accountable, but the cost of funding an environmental cleanup can bankrupt a firm, leaving their employees jobless.

Pure phosphorus cannot be found in nature due to it's reactive nature. It can be purified and isolated in laboratories, but generally, you can find phosphorous in baking powder, soil, fireworks, and it often is a component of minerals.

The correct answer choice is "regulating services." A regulating service is any service that minimizes negative impacts to humans (e.g. flood control), or facilitates human production (e.g. honeybees that pollinate crops).