{"id":160,"date":"2023-08-18T13:37:44","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T17:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=160"},"modified":"2025-07-18T10:07:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:07:23","slug":"james-meadowcroft","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/people\/james-meadowcroft\/","title":{"rendered":"James Meadowcroft"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p>James Meadowcroft is a Professor in both the Department of Political Science and the School of Public Policy and Administration. He recently completed a 14-year term as a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Governance for Sustainable Development. Meadowcroft has written widely on environmental politics and policy, democratic participation and deliberative democracy, national sustainable development strategies, and socio-technical transitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recent work focuses on energy and the transition to a low carbon society and includes publications on carbon capture and storage (CCS), smart grids, the development of Ontario\u2019s electricity system, the politics of socio-technical transitions, and negative carbon emissions. Meadowcroft\u2019s research has been funded by the UK ERSC, SSHRC, NSERC, the Ivey Foundation, McConnell Foundation, and Carbon Management Canada. He has supervised PhD students working on a variety of environment and energy-related topics including North American air pollution, the politics of biofuels, decarbonization pathways and energy futures.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button left\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sppa\/james-meadowcroft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Learn More<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"meet-our-sustainable-energy-faculty\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Meet our sustainable energy faculty<\/h3>\n\n\n\n            \n\n\n                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             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