This chapter explores the relationship between an equitable sharing of emission abatement targets between developed and developing countries and their incentives to participate in an international agreement to control climate change. Although developing countries face a drastic increase in their emissions, environmental efforts are not ranked among their priorities. The obvious explanation is t...

In this paper, I consider the issue of efficient and equitable utilization of limited resources by a collection of interacting agents. There is no presumption that a collective decision of interacting agents leads to a collectively satisfactory result without any central authority. How well agents do for it in adapting to their environment is not the same thing as how satisfactory an environmen...

Intelligent environments are physical spaces that can sense and respond to the people and events taking place within them, providing opportunities for people to influence environmental factors that affect them, such as the lighting, temperature, décor or background music in the common areas of an office building. The designer of an environment that can be influenced by a group of collocated peo...

This paper explores how the promises of equity and inclusion vanish into discourses about effectiveness, competitiveness, meritocracy. Intentions correcting onto-epistemic violence mutate paradoxes good intentions in search for securing social order economic prosperity. The hopes fears future embody legacies capitalist aspirations that position mathematics teachers as agents change. Hence, are ...