While it's true that the National Ecosystem Assessment doesn't provide a mechanism for transferring the costs of environmental degradation onto the farmer or developer who wants to ploughup a wood or concrete over a floodplain, the scientists who compiled the report say decisions about how to implement their findings should be left to legislators.
It was shocking to see the 2008 championship runner-up plough his Ferrari into the tyre wall and then not to initially know what the outcome of his accident was.