Dr Thomas O'Shea's Outputs (7)

Myths Related to Disaster Response (2025)
Book Chapter

When disasters happen, it isn't like what you read or hear about. The findings of scientific research indicate that many things that are believed, or assumed, about how people behave during disasters are contrary to actuality. Disaster myths evolve f... Read More about Myths Related to Disaster Response.

Integrating social narratives of flood events into a text network analysis-based decision support framework to reduce vulnerability to climate change in Africa (2025)
Journal Article

In many African countries, the response to climate change is obstructed by a lack of accessible and usable information, such as localised flood maps. Compounding this, current disaster risk management systems often fail to account for context-specifi... Read More about Integrating social narratives of flood events into a text network analysis-based decision support framework to reduce vulnerability to climate change in Africa.

Supporting Climate-Resilient Urban Planning: 10 Lessons from Cities in Southern Africa (2023)
Report

This brief presents key insights on integrating climate information into climate change-related adaptation planning in African cities. The projects – FRACTAL (Future Resilience for African CiTies And Lands) and its successor, FRACTAL-Plus – took plac... Read More about Supporting Climate-Resilient Urban Planning: 10 Lessons from Cities in Southern Africa.

Advancing operational flood forecasting, early warning and risk management with new emerging science (2023)
Journal Article

Kenya and the wider East African region suffer from significant flood risk, as illustrated by major losses of lives, livelihoods and assets in the most recent years. This is likely to increase in future as exposure rises and rainfall intensifies unde... Read More about Advancing operational flood forecasting, early warning and risk management with new emerging science.

The shape-shifting form of UK floodplains: Fusing analysis of the territorially constructed with analysis of natural terrain processes (2023)
Journal Article
Lewin, J., & O'Shea, T. (2023). The shape-shifting form of UK floodplains: Fusing analysis of the territorially constructed with analysis of natural terrain processes. Progress in Physical Geography, https://doi.org/10.1177/03091333231156510

Physically, river floodplains have both the subdued morphology of natural terrain created as extreme discharges and sediments pass through catchment drainage systems and, to an increasing extent, the forms that arise from purposeful human constructio... Read More about The shape-shifting form of UK floodplains: Fusing analysis of the territorially constructed with analysis of natural terrain processes.

Urban flooding in Britain: an approach to comparing ancient and contemporary flood exposure (2020)
Journal Article
O’Shea, T., & Lewin, J. (2020). Urban flooding in Britain: an approach to comparing ancient and contemporary flood exposure. Natural Hazards, 104, 581-591. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-020-04181-8

Using modified UK Environment Agency Flood Estimation Handbook techniques, inundation extent and likely flood hydrographs for 0.1% probability annual return periods are compared for twelve Roman town sites in the UK, both at the present day and for s... Read More about Urban flooding in Britain: an approach to comparing ancient and contemporary flood exposure.

Testing the impact of direct and indirect flood warnings on population behaviour using an agent-based model (2020)
Journal Article
O'Shea, T., Bates, P., & Neal, J. (2020). Testing the impact of direct and indirect flood warnings on population behaviour using an agent-based model. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 20(8), https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-2281-2020

This paper uses a coupled hydrodynamic agent-based model (HABM) to investigate the effect of direct or indirect warnings in flood incident response. This model uses the LISFLOOD-FP hydrodynamic model and the NetLogo agent-based framework and is appli... Read More about Testing the impact of direct and indirect flood warnings on population behaviour using an agent-based model.