James Meadowcroft
Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, Energy transitions, Public policy
- BA (McGill) DPhil (Oxford)
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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.
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’s electricity system, the politics of socio-technical transitions, and negative carbon emissions. Meadowcroft’s 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.
Meet our sustainable energy faculty
Ahmed Abdulla
- Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Energy system modelling, Energy Policy
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- ext 1486
Alexandra Mallett
- Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, Sustainable energy policy, Canadian North
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- ext 2641
Andrew Speirs
- Associate Professor; Associate Chair of Graduate – Academic Advising – MEng, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- ext 5089
Babak Esfandiari
- Professor, Systems and Computer Engineering, Agent-based systems, Artificial intelligence
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- ext 2479
Cynthia Cruickshank
- Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Building energy performance, Solar power
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- ext 1964
Daniel Rosenbloom
- Assistant Professor and Rosamond Ivey Research Chair in Sustainability Transitions – governance of socio-technical transitions and net-zero pathways; climate policy and politics; Canadian energy political economy; science, technology, and innovation
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- 613-520-2600 x 2638