Market failure occurs in case of most of the environmental goods, because
Many environmental services have public-good properties: one person’s enjoyment does not reduce another’s and exclusion is difficult. That combination creates free-riding…
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Market failure occurs in case of most of the environmental goods, because
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Many environmental services have public-good properties: one person’s enjoyment does not reduce another’s and exclusion is difficult. That combination creates free-riding and underprovision. Rivalry or excludability alone does not establish the stated public-good failure; non-rivalry concerns consumption rather than the source’s listed alternative of production. Some environmental resources are common-pool and rival, so “most” is a broad generalization.
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