EcoTRADE - a multi player network game of a tradable permit market for biodiversity credits

摘要

EcoTRADE is a multi player network game of a virtual biodiversity creditmarket. Each player controls the land use of a certain amount of parcels on avirtual landscape. The biodiversity credits of a particular parcel depend onneighboring parcels, which may be owned by other players. The game can be usedto study the strategies of players in experiments or classroom games and alsoas a communication tool for stakeholders participating in credit markets thatinclude spatially interdependent credits.