Leonard Creutzburg is a postdoctoral researcher in the Informatics and Sustainability Research (ISR) Group and at the Zurich Knowledge Center for Sustainable Development (ZKSD).

He studied Political Science (BA) and Socio-Ecological Economics and Policy (MSc) at Goethe University Frankfurt (Main) and the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Subsequently, Leonard worked as a parliamentarian employee for the President of the Austrian National Council in Vienna.

Prior to joining the ISR Group, Leonard was a research assistant at ETH Zurich at the Natural Research Policy Group (NARP) and completed his PhD in Economic Geography (Dr. sc. nat.) at the University of Zurich.

• Sufficiency
• Degrowth/post-growth
• Environmental policy

Scientific articles (peer-reviewed)

• Creutzburg, L. 2022. “Growing Trees for a Degrowth Society: An Approach to Switzerland’s Forest Sector.” Environmental Values.  https://doi.org/10.3197/096327121X16387842836959
• Ohmura, T., and L. Creutzburg. 2021. “Guarding the For(es)t: Sustainable economy conflicts and stakeholder preference of policy instruments.”  Forest Policy and Economics 131:102553. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102553
• Creutzburg, L., and E. Lieberherr. 2021. “To log or not to log? Actor preferences and networks in Swiss forest policy.” Forest Policy and Economics 125:102395. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102395
• Creutzburg, L., T. Ohmura, and E. Lieberherr. 2020. “A Gift Programme for Sustainable Forest Management? A Swiss Perspective on Public Policies and Property Rights.” Geographica Helvetica 75 (2):69-80. https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-69-2020

Scientific articles (non peer-reviewed)

• Creutzburg, L., E. Lieberherr, und B. Baerlocher. 2021. "Die Leitideen des Forstpolizeigesetzes." Zürcher Wald, 5. 10-14. https://www.zh.ch/content/dam/zhweb/bilder-dokumente/themen/umwelt-tiere/wald/200_jahre_elias_landolt_2021.pdf
• Cologna, V., L. Creutzburg, and V. Frick. 2020. “Sufficiency: the missing ingredient for sustainable digitalisation.” SocietyByte (Wissenschaftsmagazin des BFH-Zentrums Digital Society). https://www.societybyte.swiss/2020/05/11/sufficiency-the-missing-ingredient-for-sustainable-digitalisation/
• Creutzburg, L., T. Ohmura, and E. Lieberherr. 2019. “Sustainable Economy Goal Conflicts and Policy Instruments: The Case of the Swiss Forest Sector.” SPSA Annual Conference and Dreiländertagung 2019.

Other publications

• Creutzburg, L. 2022. Degrowth – an emerging concept questioning the basis of our current economic model. Blog whitehorsepress. https://whitehorsepress.blog/2022/02/22/degrowth-an-emerging-concept-questioning-the-basis-of-our-current-economic-model/
• Creutzburg, L., und V. Cologna. 2021. «Wir drohen im eigenen Wachstum zu ersticken»: Postwachstum als Alternative zur Wachstumsökonomie. Reatch. https://reatch.ch/publikationen/wir-drohen-im-eigenen-wachstum-zu-ersticken-postwachstum-als-alternative-zur-wachstumsoekonomie
• Cologna, V., und L. Creutzburg. 2020. “In dubio pro Postwachstum.” Salto. https://www.salto.bz/de/article/14052020/dubio-pro-postwachstum
• Creutzburg, L. 2020. “Postwachstum und die Arbeitswelt: Eine Annäherung.” Blog Postwachstum. https://www.postwachstum.de/postwachstum-und-die-arbeitswelt-eine-annaeherung-20200319