Note: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Alchemy of a Material World -- PART I: THE PLEASURE OF TREASURE -- 1. What Lies Beneath: The Material and Mystical Origins of Mineral Wealth -- 2. Creating Value: The Endurance of Precious Jewels -- 3. The Rush Factor: Tracing the Mineral Roots of Global Power Through Gold, Coal, and Oil -- PART II: TOIL AND TREASURE -- 4. The Darker Side of Fortune: The Psychology of Treasure Dependence -- 5. Curing the Resource Curse: Minerals and Global Development -- 6. The Spoils of the Earth: The Ecological Toll of Extractive Excitement -- PART III: MEASURE FOR MEASURE -- 7. Destination Cradle: The Quest for Material Cycling -- 8. The Restoration Ethic: Hurting and Healing Ecosystems -- 9. Embracing the Treasure Impulse: Toward Cautionary Creativity -- Epilogue: Embracing Uncertainty -- Appendix: Notable Minerals and Their Human Uses -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Note: Cover -- Earthly Order -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Limited Logic of Order? -- Functional Order -- Two's Company -- Chemical Chaos -- 1. Seduction of Structure in Nature -- Molecular "Magic" -- Quantum Order -- Phases, Crystals, and Material Order -- Constancy and Hybrid Natural Order -- 2. The Elements of Earthly Order -- The New Carbonic Order? -- Nuclear Order -- Magnetic Order -- 3. Circularity, Cyclicality, and Sustainability -- Hydrological Order -- Orders of Gaia and Medea -- Organismic Order -- Bounded Natural Order -- 4. The Orders of Economic Harmony -- Urbanism and Resilience in Socioeconomic Order -- Scales and Speeds of Economic Order -- Currencies of Sustainable Economic Order -- 5. Elusive Orders of Economic Equilibrium -- Orders of Price and Quantity -- Consumer Ecology and Varieties of Equilibria -- Toward an Optimal Economic Order for the Planet -- 6. Mindful Errors and Social Order -- Lonely Crowds and the Greening of the Shared Economy -- Environmental Risk, Uncertainty, and Precautionary Disorder -- Gaining from Disorder: Immunity, Intelligence, and Religion -- The Conspiratorial Conundrum of Cause -- 7. Sex, Population, and Sustainability -- From Tragedy to Comedy of the Commons -- The Age Beyond Aging -- Gender, Culture, and Reconciling Anomalies -- 8. Empires and Edens -- The Dragon and the Wild Goose -- Resource Nationalism -- Great Powers Concerts and Radical Salvations -- 9. Borders and Functional Political Order -- The Ambivalence of Ecological Borders -- The Order of Environmental Peacebuilding -- Identity, Borders, and Order -- 10. From International to Global Order in the "Anthropocene" -- Confederations of Peaceful Ecological Order -- Networks and the Realignment of Global Order in the Anthropocene -- Closing the Loop on Global Order -- Conclusion: Reconciling Orders. , Lesson 1: Patterns Raise Useful Questions but Not Always Useful Answers -- Lesson 2: Natural Order Is Ultimate but Humanistic Order Is Proximate -- Lesson 3: Transitions In and Out of Order Are Not Always Reversible in Space or Time -- Lesson 4: Tipping Points Can Lead to Accelerated Order or Disorder -- Lesson 5: Earthly Order Can Be Both Discovered and Invented -- Coda: Chromatic Order -- Index.

Note: Africa's Mineral Fortune- Front Cover -- Africa's Mineral Fortune -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Notes -- PART I: The politics of African mining -- Chapter 1: Harmonizing African resource politics? Lessons from the African Minerals Development Centre -- Introduction -- Harnessing Africa's resource endowment -- The need for African-driven solutions -- Formulating the Africa Mining Vision -- Implementing the Africa Mining Vision through the African Minerals Development Centre -- Domestication of the Africa Mining Vision through Country Mining Vision -- Lesotho case -- Mozambique case -- Shifting paradigms under the Africa Mining Vision -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Evaluating conflict risks in Africa's resource governance -- Introduction -- Revisiting resource conflict -- Conceptual framework: why politics matters -- Cases of conflict risks in east African extractive industries -- Governance mechanisms for addressing conflict risks at different levels -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Chinese mining in Africa and its global controversy -- Introduction -- Chinese investment in the world and in Africa -- Chinese investment in medium- to large-scale African mining -- The discourse of Chinese copper mining in Zambia -- Safety at Chinese- and other foreign-owned copper mines in Zambia -- Pay at Chinese- and other foreign-owned copper mines in Zambia -- Uniquely bad or neoliberally bad? -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Field vignette. Moving from prescriptive to performance- based regulation: the case of waste management -- Chapter 5: Field vignette. Ghana's policy on artisanal and small-scale mining -- PART II: Data and models: supporting strategic planning for Africa's minerals -- Chapter 6: Developing accurate and accessible geoscientific data for sustainable mining in Africa -- Introduction. , How can more metals and minerals be found? -- Challenges to the development of mineral resources in Africa -- The critical role of national geological surveys -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Challenges in measuring the local and regional contributions of mining: lessons from case studies in Rwanda, Zambia, and Ghana -- Introduction -- Traditional regional development perspectives on identifying and measuring the impacts of mining -- New perspectives on the relationship between mining and development: global trends and structural transformations -- Current approaches to measuring resource-sector investment linkages in Africa -- Macroeconomic performance, mineral portfolios,and the structure of extractive industries in Rwanda, Zambia, and Ghana -- Evaluating the supply chain value of ASM in Rwanda: input-output analysis and multiplier effects -- Inclusive approaches to measuring development in Rwanda, Zambia, and Ghana: five capitals framework and Q-sort methodology -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Measuring transformative development from mining: a case study of Madagascar -- Introduction -- Madagascar and mining: an overview -- Methodology -- Macroeconomic effects -- Fiscal contribution -- Economic linkages: local procurement -- Employment -- Transformative development: concluding remarks -- Notes -- Chapter 9: Field vignette. The Extractives Dependence Index and its impact on Africa -- Chapter 10: Field vignette. The West African Exploration Initiative (WAXI) as a model for collaborative research and development -- Research activities -- Capacity Building Activities -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- PART III: Environment, health, and innovation -- Chapter 11: Conservation priorities and extractive industries in Africa: opportunities for conflict prevention -- Introduction -- Africa's current conservation priorities. , Trends in mining and the environment -- Case studies -- Conclusion -- Appendix I -- Notes -- Chapter 12: Ebola and other emerging infectious diseases: managing risks to the mining industry -- Introduction -- Ebola and other emerging infectious diseases -- Managing risk for the extractives industry: prevention, preparedness, and response -- The way forward-multisectoral collaboration in a globalized system for EID control -- Notes -- Chapter 13: Mineral investment decision-making in Africa: a real options approach in integrating price and environmental risks -- Introduction -- Project valuation using real options -- Mining in Ghana -- Mining in Tanzania -- Mining in South Africa -- Modeling gold price uncertainty -- Modeling environmental uncertainty -- The model -- Hypothetical case study: a gold mining project -- Discussions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 14: The potential of Zambian copper-cobalt metallophytes for phytoremediation of minerals wastes -- Metallophytes and hyperaccumulator plants -- Mining industry and environmental legacy in Zambia -- Research on the metallophytes of the Copper-Cobalt Belt in Zambia -- Current state of metallophytes in Zambia -- The vegetation on copper-enriched sites in Zambia -- Phytostabilization of minerals wastes using metallophytes -- Potential for phytomining on minerals wastes using hyperaccumulator plants -- Advanced scientific methods to understand hyperaccumulator plants -- Conservation of metallophytes in Zambia -- Outlook and future opportunities -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix -- Notes -- Chapter 15: Field vignette. South Africa's underground women miners -- Notes -- Chapter 16: Field vignette. Sapphire mining, water, and maternal health in Madagascar -- Note -- PART IV: Reconciling scales of mining governance. , Chapter 17: Strategies for working with artisanal and small-scale miners in sub-Saharan Africa -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Promoting economic development through ASM in Africa -- Promoting effective governance of ASM in Africa -- Promoting protection and rehabilitation of the environment -- Promoting health and safety in ASM -- Notes -- Chapter 18: Artisanal and small-scale mining community health, safety, and sanitation: a water focus -- Introduction -- ASM community risks: integration of households and workplace -- Water, sanitation, and hygiene-related health risks in ASM -- Tarkwa district: a case study -- More water- and gender-related health and safety issues: fieldwork findings -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 19: Gauging the effectiveness of certification schemes and standards for responsible mining in Africa -- Introduction -- Artisanal and small-scale mining formalization -- Interoperability -- Local development -- Consequences of non-compliance and sanctions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 20: Field vignette. The Australia-Africa Minerals and Energy Group (AAMEG) -- AAMEG supports members operating in Africa by: -- Chapter 21: Field vignette. Sourcing "conflict-free" minerals from Central Africa -- Conclusion: a multifaceted fortune -- Notes -- Index.