James Meadowcroft

James R. Meadowcroft (born 15 January 1954) is a Canadian sustainability scientist.

Meadowcroft earned his Bachelor of Arts at McGill University, followed by a DPhil at the University of Oxford. He was a reader at the University of Sheffield, before returning to Canada, where held a Tier I Canada Research Chair for fourteen years at Carleton University. At Carleton, Meadowcroft also held a Chancellor's Professorship.