Ecosystems and Poverty

I probably commit the error of commonly thinking that more value in an ecosystem service is a good thing, but this is not always the case.  Resilience Science have blogged about an article showing how an increase in the eocsystem service for recreation drives land prices up in the US, leading to a loss of land for other ecosystem services such as pulp and timber.  Plenty of analogies out there in the tropics in the context of basic ecosystem services and conflicts between rich and poor.