Abstract Can we reduce the damage from climate change by investing in seawalls, stilts, or other forms of adaptation? Focusing on case severe storms US, I develop a macro heterogeneous-agent model to quantify interactions between adaptation, federal disaster policy, and change. The departs standard function incorporates as realization idiosyncratic shocks. Using calibrated model, infer that ada...

C hina’s position as the world’s second largest economy is largely due to its rapid economic growth in the coastal region, which composes only 13% of China’s total land area, yet contributes 60% of the gross domestic product (GDP). To create extra land for the rapidly growing economy, coastal wetlands have been enclosed by thousands of kilometers of seawalls, whose length exceeds that of China’...

Abstract Despite recent research efforts in advancing machine learning (ML) tools to predict nearshore characteristics at sea defences, less attention has been paid ML algorithms predicting scouring vertical seawalls. In this study, four approaches were investigated, including gradient boosting decision trees (GBDT), random forest (RF), support vector regression (SVR), and ridge (RR). These uti...