Designing profitable and climate-smart farms using virtual reality

Author Contributions Conceptualization: Remy Lasseur, Seth Laurenson, Mike Mackay. Data curation: Remy Lasseur. Formal analysis: Remy Lasseur. Funding acquisition: Remy Lasseur, Seth Laurenson, Mike Mackay. Investigation: Remy Lasseur, Mohsin Ali, Ian Loh. Methodology: Remy Lasseur, Mohsin Ali, Ian Loh. Project administration: Remy Lasseur. Software: Mohsin Ali. Supervision: Seth Laurenson. Visualization: Mohsin Ali. Writing – original draft: Remy Lasseur. Writing – review & editing: Seth Laurenson, Mike Mackay. References 1. Campbell BM, Beare DJ, Bennett EM, Hall-Spencer JM, Ingram JSI, Jaramillo F, et al. Agriculture pro- duction as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries. Ecology and Society. 2017; 22(4). https://doi.org/10.5751/es-09595-220408 2. Klerkx L, Jakku E, Labarthe P. A review of social science on digital agriculture, smart farming and agri- culture 4.0: New contributions and a future research agenda. NJAS: Wageningen Journal of Life Sci- ences. 2022;90–91(1):1–16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.njas.2019.100315 3. Rose DC, Sutherland WJ, Parker C, Lobley M, Winter M, Morris C, et al. Decision support tools for agri- culture: Towards effective design and delivery. Agricultural Systems. 2016; 149:165–74. https://doi.org/ 10.1016/j.agsy.2016.09.009 4. Nassauer JI. Commentary: Visualization verisimilitude and civic participation. Landscape and Urban Planning. 2015; 142:170–2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2015.07.013 5. Portman ME, Natapov A, Fisher-Gewirtzman D. To go where no man has gone before: Virtual reality in

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