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396 R.Mechler et al. Fig.17.1 Thepracticeimperative—connectingdisasterpreparednessandlivelihooddevelopment. FigureSourceMcQuistan (2015) to popular belief, judiciouslymanaging flood risk does not have tomean a reduc- tion in economicwell-being. Learning to be flood resilientmeans identifying and taking actionwhere flood risk can bemitigated and development can be enhanced inmutually reinforcingways (see alsoKeating et al. 2016a). This involves consid- ering transformationalchangeaspartof riskmanagement responses (seechapterby Schinkoet al. 2018). 17.1.3 CraftingEffectiveScience-SocietyPartnerships that InformPolicyandPractice Howtobring theseperspectives togetherat thedifferent scales that theyoperateat? Inorder to inform thesepolicy andpractice imperatives there is increasing interest inforgingscience-societypartnershipmodelsforeffectivelymanagingdisasterrisks across scales.This particularlyholds true for debate aroundLoss andDamage.We report onone suchpartnership, theZurichFloodResilienceAlliance, apartnership launched in 2013 to enhance communities’ resilience toflooding at local to global scales.TheprogrambringstogethertheskillsandexpertiseofNGOs,researchinstitu-