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 'Holistic Investigator', working on a study of the future of Bristol's economy. This work seeks to understand several things: 1) the extent to which a local economy can be insulated from systemic shocks, 2) the definitions of 'sustainable' and 'resilience' in this context, 3) the relationships between the different actors within the economy, 4) money flows through the local economy, 5) the potential growth areas in the economy, and 6) the opportunities for grassroots economic initiatives such as social enterprise and cooperatives. His blog carries updates on the progress of this study.^[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 (2009) and A Renewable World: Energy, Ecology, Equality (2009).^[6]

See also

• Herbert Girardet
• Amory Lovins
• Benjamin K. Sovacool
• 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. ^ Bristol Study Blog www.miguelmendonca.com
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

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