Emergent behavior in a coupled economic and coastline model for beach nourishment by E. D. Lazarus, D. E. McNamara, M. D. Smith, S. Gopalakrishnan, A. B. Murray

“…We link an economic model, in which town-manager agents choose economically optimal beach-nourishment intervals according to past observations of their immediate shoreline, to a simplified coastal-dynamics model that includes alongshore sediment transport and background erosion (e.g. from sea-level rise). …”
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