Increasing mine waste will induce land cover change that results in ecological degradation and human displacement

Affiliations

• ¹ Centre for Development Support, University of the Free State, 205 Nelson Mandela Dr, Park West, Bloemfontein, 9301, South Africa. Electronic address: OwenJ@ufs.ac.za.
• ² Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia. Electronic address: d.kemp@smi.uq.edu.au.
• ³ Urban Transformations Hub, Monash University Indonesia, Green Office Park 9, The Breeze, BSD City, Tangerang Selatan, Banten, 15345, Indonesia. Electronic address: alex.lechner@monash.edu.
• ⁴ Landscape Ecology and Conservation Lab, School of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, University of Nottingham Malaysia, Semenyih, 43500, Malaysia. Electronic address: Michelle.Ang@nottingham.edu.my.
• ⁵ Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia. Electronic address: e.lebre@uq.edu.au.
• ⁶ Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. Electronic address: gavin.mudd@rmit.edu.au.
• ⁷ Lincoln Centre for Water and Planetary Health, School of Geography, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, LN6, 7TS, UK. Electronic address: MMacklin@lincoln.ac.uk.
• ⁸ Urban Transformations Hub, Monash University Indonesia, Green Office Park 9, The Breeze, BSD City, Tangerang Selatan, Banten, 15345, Indonesia. Electronic address: risqi.saputra@monash.edu.
• ⁹ Urban Transformations Hub, Monash University Indonesia, Green Office Park 9, The Breeze, BSD City, Tangerang Selatan, Banten, 15345, Indonesia. Electronic address: tahjudil.witra@monash.edu.
• ¹⁰ Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, 950 Main St, Worcester, MA, 01610, USA. Electronic address: abebbington@clarku.edu.