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Tibet Academy of Social Sciences
བོད་ལྗོངས་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཚན་རིག་ཁང་།
The federation's centre for high-altitude strategic resources and technology: headwaters and glacial hydrology, lithium and geothermal provinces, and the engineering that functions at altitude.
ལྷ་ས། བོད།
- Established
- 2021
- Programs & centers
- 6
- Years of field record
- 5
- Archive closed
- 2026
Mandate
What the academy was established to do
- Study the plateau headwaters that supply the major river systems of Asia
- Assess lithium, borate and geothermal provinces and the terms on which they are developed
- Evaluate high-altitude infrastructure, grid and cold-chain technology
- Model the interaction of glacial retreat, hydropower and downstream supply
Seat
ལྷ་ས། བོད།
Lhasa, Tibet
Established
2021
Founded in 2021, established to study the plateau as a strategic system — the water tower of Asia, an emerging lithium and geothermal province, and one of the hardest operating environments for any technology.
Last site update
July 2026
Research strands
Strands carried before the archive closed
Contributors appear as coded identifiers.
- 2021–2026Archived — incompleteTBASS
Water, Climate & Environmental Risk — the Tibetan plateau
38 researches in the Tibetan plateau strand, 2021–2026. Representative lines of enquiry: Tibetan Plateau Water Systems; Pastoral Livelihoods and Environmental Variability in Tibet; Glaciers, Permafrost and Settlement.
- Programme
- Water, Climate & Environmental Risk
- Contributors (coded)
- XJ-20 · leadLD-11LD-12
- 2021–2022Archived — incompleteTBASS
Energy Systems & Grid Security — the Tibetan plateau
2 researches in the Tibetan plateau strand, 2021–2022. Representative lines of enquiry: Solar Potential at High Altitude; Solar, Hydro and Grid Distance.
- Programme
- Energy Systems & Grid Security
- Contributors (coded)
- XJ-07 · leadLD-09XJ-24XJ-14LD-12
- 2021–2026Archived — incompleteTBASS
Borders, Corridors & Logistics — the Tibetan plateau
15 researches in the Tibetan plateau strand, 2021–2026. Representative lines of enquiry: The Plateau's Roads; Digital Tibet; Migration, Settlement and Services on the Tibetan Plateau.
- Programme
- Borders, Corridors & Logistics
- Contributors (coded)
- LD-12 · leadXJ-32XJ-24XJ-11LD-11