Infrastructure and local agenda 21: The municipality of albertslund in the Copenhagen Region

This chapter explores the future of technical networks from the perspective of local aspirations for sustainable forms of flow management as expressed by LA21 initiatives. LA21 has been selected because it is oriented to local planning and development, calling on local authorities to develop plans to pursue the objectives and measures laid down in the Agenda 21 document at a municipal level in a consultative process with local people and institutions. Furthermore, this document expressly targets energy, water and waste issues as key policy fields for the sustainable management of natural resources, identifying the need to 'modernize existing power systems to raise energy efficiency and develop new and renewable energy sources', to 'protect the integrity of aquatic ecosystems' and to 'minimize the creation of waste, and to ensure that wastes are re-used, recycled and safely collected and treated' (Keating, 1993).