ABSTRACT
The regional approach to interdependence is based on the understanding that development is taking place at a scale larger than a single community. Interdependence among stakeholders intends to bring a broad range of people together in a joint learning process to achieve consensus on the growth management activities to be applied. Growth management stakeholders are overburdened by the myriad tasks necessary to complete a well-tailored set of growth management activities. Consequently, an important aspect deserving more attention in future growth management work is elaboration of a tool kit for education. Education is gaining the status of a new and highly important growth management tool. In every growth management program, open-mindedness and democracy must be informed by a broad range of skills and knowledge from technical skills to people skills to knowing about legitimacy and ethical values. The regional scope of growth management makes clear that inter-jurisdictional and regional cooperation as well as collaborative planning are necessary.
