Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment

ATREE's organizational structure is designed to promote creative interdisciplinary approaches that integrate research with policy and action in addressing key environmental problems. Two centres, four current programmes, and an Academy provide ATREE the necessary structure to conduct innovative research that fuels its 'think-tank' and drives its capacity building activities.

The Suri Sehgal Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation and Centre for Environment and Development represent two broad thematic areas nesting four cohesive inter-linked programmes, to which a fifth programme, 'Energy and Sustainability' may be added in the near future. Each programme envisions integrating research with an active engagement with society and contributing to the pedagogic activities of the Academy for Conservation Science and Sustainability Studies. The Academy has a strong presence in the field through its six field academies which champion reciprocal learning that advances sound environmental governance in the local landscapes. The field academies are a resource to students and faculty to enable rigorous field-driven research. The Academy houses a vibrant Ph D programme, but also aims to provide certificate courses, training modules and workshops for a broad spectrum of stakeholders. Climate Change and governance are seen as broad and essential cross-cutting themes.