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Miguel Mendonça (born August 1973, Salisbury, Rhodesia) is an Anglo-Azorean writer based in Bristol, England. He studied forestry, landscape management, journalism and radio, geography and history, social science and environmental ethics at various educational institutions in England and the Republic of Ireland. His alma mater was University College Cork. Miguel is most associated with work on feed-in tariffs, a renewable energy policy. He did advocacy and education work on this topic on four continents, contributing to legislative change in several countries. Much of this work was carried out while he served as Research Manager for the World Future Council, an international NGO. He subsequently worked with The Converging World, a renewable energy-focused charity based in Bristol, England. Miguel then worked for a short period as a freelance sustainability researcher and writer. He produced two key studies, the first reviewing the first year performance and outcomes of the UK feed-in tariff in 2011, and the second assessing 'The Green Economy in Bristol and the West of England', which was published in January 2012. The latter assessed the size and make-up of the environmental technologies sector in the region at that time. It also surveyed the UK green policy environment, and summarised some of the other key aspects of a green economy, including sustainable design of goods and services, retail, food, and well-being. The report concluded with a call for 'Resilience Planning', an ongoing process of strategic collaboration between actors and stakeholders in the region, towards meeting local needs sustainably 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Green Economy in Bristol & the West – a Call for Resilience Planning )〕 Miguel has written and co-written a number of books, and numerous articles, book chapters and papers. He is the author of ''Feed-in Tariffs: accelerating the deployment of renewable energy'', published by Earthscan in 2007.〔(Miguel Mendonca ) ''Renewable Energy World''.〕 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).〔(World Future Council publications )〕 His first work of fiction, a collection of 11 short stories and 1 novella, was published as 'Quick! Act Normal,' in February 2013 under the pen name of Michael Ford. His stories explore human experience, and in particular our relationships with ourselves, each other and the world in which we live. The work is an extension of his previous research in the field of sustainability. == See also == *Herbert Girardet * Amory Lovins * Margaret Atwood * James Howard Kunstler 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Miguel Mendonca」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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