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

TL;DR

EcoTRADE is an interactive multiplayer game simulating a biodiversity credit market, allowing players to explore land use strategies and stakeholder communication in spatially interdependent ecological trading scenarios.

Contribution

It introduces a novel multiplayer network game for modeling and studying biodiversity credit markets with spatial interdependencies.

Findings

Enables analysis of strategic land use decisions.

Facilitates stakeholder communication and education.

Supports experimental and classroom applications.

Abstract

EcoTRADE is a multi player network game of a virtual biodiversity credit market. Each player controls the land use of a certain amount of parcels on a virtual landscape. The biodiversity credits of a particular parcel depend on neighboring parcels, which may be owned by other players. The game can be used to study the strategies of players in experiments or classroom games and also as a communication tool for stakeholders participating in credit markets that include spatially interdependent credits.