“…viewpoints of my esteemed colleagues, Burrell Montz and Andrea Zischg in their recent editorials (Montz, 2021;Zischg, 2022) about the need to confront complexity in flood risk management research and consider the translation of studies to assist in their adoption into practice. Dewa et al (2023) in their contribution to this Issue do just this and present a multidimensional framework for characterising, measuring and understanding community flood resilience in rural Malawi and integrate physical and socio-demographic factors.…”