Leonard Creutzburg joined the Sustainability Team as Project Leader for Sustainability in University Operations in November 2022. Apart from his work in the Sustainability Team, Leonard is postdoc in the ISR Research 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.

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)

• 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. 2023. Von Wachstum über Suffizienz zu Postwachstum. Denknetz. https://www.denknetz.ch/wachstum-suffizienz-postwachstum/
• Reimann, K., Warland, L., Behringer, J., Gantenbein, S., Creutzburg, L., Hilty, L. M.(2023): Nachhaltigkeitsbericht der Universität Zürich 2021-2022, Universität Zürich. https://www.sustainability.uzh.ch/de/policy-reporting/nachhaltigkeitsbericht.html
• 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