So Kuo called together a group of distinguished academics, including Chen Su-chin, a professor of soil and water conservation at National Chunghsing University; Hsieh Cheng-lun, a professor at the Disaster Prevention Research Center at National Cheng Kung University; and Debbie Weng, president of the Taiwan Soil and Water Conservation Professional Engineers 'Association. Combining theory with practice, they came up with a set of ecologically based principles for erosion prevention bioengineering.
郭清江就此召集包括中興大學水保系教授陳樹群、成大防災中心教授謝正倫、台灣省水土保持技師公會理事長鄭麗瓊等人，綜合學理與實務等經驗，思索出一套儘量採用生態工法、就地取材的源頭治本方案──「土石流治本工法」！