20.500.12556/RUL-182124 Perceptions and operationalisation of rural resilience in practice In recent years, the European Commission has actively promoted the concept of rural resilience (European Commission, 2025), but there are still many divergent views on the operationalisation of the concept at EU, national and local levels. Drawing from quantitative and qualitative evidence (e-survey, 18 semi-structured interviews and four focus groups), from studies based in Ireland, Portugal, Slovenia and EU-wide perspective, we analysed the practitioners’ understanding of rural resilience; and identified key factors and challenges for implementation in practice. Findings reveal that, while rural resilience is a conceptual construct open to multiple interpretations, a clear distinction can be observed between theoretical and practitioner interpretations. Theoretical perspectives tend to adopt a broader, more systematic view of rural resilience, transformative and “bouncing forward” approaches, whereas practitioner interpretations are typically narrower, focusing on robustness, adaptability, context-specific actions and immediate community needs. Our findings have implications for policy formation, highlighting that resilience is a long-term process rather than a fixed outcome. rural resilience transformative resilience adaptation community resilience rural development odpornost podeželja transformativna odpornost prilagajanje odpornost skupnosti razvoj podeželja true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Licenca CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 je navedena na spletni strani revije. Članek v reviji 2026-04-24 13:13:36 2026-04-24 13:13:42 2026-04-25 04:48:50 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 Str. 37-51 no. 1 Vol. 18 March 2026 0000-00-00 NiDoloceno NiDoloceno apc 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2026-04-01 711.3:330.34(4-6EU) 1803-8417 10.2478/euco-2026-0003 274190851 RAZ_Mikolic_Sara_2026.pdf RAZ_Mikolic_Sara_2026.pdf 1 1AC1F9E00843D4E9D12650C433C17AA9 c05bd212895fa62c1be35b6ffb53bc8d558bd3bfd6efa7f7fecf45e8620bd6ea 9dd7a57a-3fd0-11f1-b0ab-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=233097 https://reference-global.com/article/10.2478/euco-2026-0003 1 66b9298e-3fce-11f1-b0ab-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=233092 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0