Suitaiology: Technical goals and general concept designing for applications in mountain areas

Title : Suitaiology: Technical goals and general concept designing for applications in mountain areas

Abstract:

Water is the source of life, but driven by natural forces, its natural characteristics manifest as a process of "planation" that reshapes the terrain. Therefore, the humanistic pursuit based on existing patterns inevitably leads to conflict with this process. As a complement to traditional hydrology, the core of Suitaiology lies in systematically understanding the dominant role of water within the WHE system composed of waterhumans-environment, as well as the interactive situations among its members, seeking to turn adversaries into allies and transform disastrous situations into favorable ones harmoniously to achieve sustainable development beneficial to humanity. This discussion here primarily focuses on topics related to agriculture. Mountainous areas serve as the water source for watersheds, but they are also the origin of water-related disasters. Taking this strategic location as an example, my previous speeches in ARGI have gradually uncovered how water, through "dimensionality reduction strikes," undermines the ecological foundation, leading to secondary geological disasters and resulting in floods. From a suitaiologic point of view, the optimal engineering approaches must be system-centered, guiding actions based on circumstances, and transforming situations through "dimensional elevation" and "dynamic adjustment" to eliminate secondary geological disasters, create water resources, and protect and promote the environment and agricultural development of the entire watershed. Traditional reservoirs will act as CPUs, storing and distributing surface water resources on a large scale downstream. Traditional soil and water conservation facilities will evolve into part of a three-dimensional network of ultra-micro reservoirs. These ultra-micro-reservoir systems will play the role of GPUs, converting rainfall that would normally lead to soil erosion into underground micro-water sources, thereby alleviating the pressure and risks posed by extreme climate events on traditional reservoirs, and supporting the development of mountain ecology and agriculture. The entire engineering system can be regulated by AI to automatically adapt to climate change and take into account the complex needs of humans and the environment in temporal and spatial changes.
Keywords: Water Problems; Suitaiology; Situation; Water-Huma-Environment (WHE); Water Resource Creation

Audience Take Away Notes:

• The audience will realize from a novel study of water ecology that the pursuit of humanism is in conflict with the essence of water, which represents the power of nature. Understanding the essence, thinking in reverse, and harmoniously transforming disastrous situations into favorable ones can effectively solve water problems and respond to climate change
• The audience will realize that all problems are not isolated and static, but are situations formed by the interaction of multiple parties. It is necessary to look beyond this system and grasp the dynamic changes of the situations with the concept of system, so as to achieve harmless comprehensive development
• The audience will understand that in the face of complex problems, intelligence and cognition are needed first, and then ways can be found to adapt to specific physical characteristics and transform from narrow fields to general fields

Biography:

Dr. Dachang Zhang received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in hydrogeology & Engineering Geology from the Changchun Institute of Geology and Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1982 and 1985 respectively, then became a researcher at Chinese Academy of Sciences. After his PhD degree in geography from the University of Vienna in 1996 with significant contributions to a national water project of Austria, he was a postdoctoral fellowship and researcher at the University of Waterloo, Canada from 1997-2000. And then, he worked as a consultant in Canada and U.S.A. and become a License Professional Geologist of the State of California since 2007. He also worked for the University of Bijie, China, as a Professor and the Deputy Dean of the Academy for Bijie Experimental Region for water management and rural development in impoverished mountainous areas from 2008 to 2014. He is the Founder and President of the Water &Eco Crisis Foundation, USA, since 2010. In 2012, Dr. Dachang Zhang and his team set out to create a new water science—Suitaiology, which was first officially released at the 1st Edition of Global Conference on Agriculture and Horticulture (AGRI 2021) in 2021.