Miguel Mendonca

Miguel Mendonça (born August 1973, Salisbury, Rhodesia) is a writer, focussing on sustainability. He studied forestry, landscape management, journalism, geography, history, social science and environmental ethics. He is most associated with work on feed-in tariffs, a renewable energy policy. He has done advocacy and education work on this topic in a number of countries, contributing to their introduction in several. Much of this work was carried out while he served as Research Manager for the World Future Council, an international NGO.^[1] He subsequently worked with The Converging World, a renewable energy-focussed charity based in Bristol, England.

Miguel is now a freelance researcher and writer working on sustainability, most recently producing the report 'The Green Economy in Bristol and the West of England,' published January 16th, 2012. The work assesses the size and makeup of the environmental technologies sector in the region, surveys the UK green policy environment, and summarises some of the other key aspects of a green economy, including sustainable design of goods and services, retail, food, and well-being. The report concludes with a call for 'Resilience Planning', an ongoing process of strategic collaboration between actors and stakeholders in the region, towards meeting local needs through investment in local assets. The integration and optimisation of food, energy and transport systems is central. The development of resilience should merge the agendas of sustainability, economic development, social capital development, participatory democracy and emergency planning.^[2]

Miguel has written and co-written a number of books, and many articles and papers.^[3] He is the author of Feed-in Tariffs: accelerating the deployment of renewable energy, published by Earthscan in 2007.^[4][5] He is also co-author of Powering the Green Economy: The Feed-In Tariff Handbook (Earthscan, 2009) and A Renewable World: Energy, Ecology, Equality (Green Books, 2009).^[6]

As of February 2012, Miguel divides his time between short written sustainability projects and a more philosophical and sociological novel on sustainability.

See also

• Herbert Girardet
• Amory Lovins
• Benjamin K. Sovacool
• Margaret Atwood
• James Howard Kunstler
• Renewable energy commercialization

References

1. ^ Xavier Lemaire (23 September 2009). "Interview with Miguel Mendonca". REEEP. http://www.reeep.org/index.php?assetType=news&assetId=294. 
2. ^ "Error: no |title= specified when using {{Cite web}}". http://www.miguelmendonca.com/2012/01/16/the-green-economy-in-bristol-report-published/#more-303. 
3. ^ "Author Profile: Miguel Mendonça". Resurgence Magazine. http://www.resurgence.org/magazine/author230-miguel-mendonca.html. 
4. ^ Miguel Mendonca Renewable Energy World.
5. ^ Miguel Mendonca (2007). "Feed-in tariffs: accelerating the deployment of renewable energy". Google Books. http://books.google.com/books/about/Feed_in_tariffs.html?id=TJlBl8eFpTkC. 
6. ^ World Future Council publications