Environment (disambiguation)

Environment may mean:

• Environment (biophysical), the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism
• Natural environment, all living and non-living things that occur naturally on Earth
• Built environment, constructed surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places
• Social environment, the culture that an individual lives in, and the people and institutions with whom they interact
• Environmental science, the study of the interactions among the physical, chemical and biological components of the environment
• Environmental psychology
• Environmental determinism
• Environmental policy
• Environmental quality
• Environmental art

In computing:

• Environment variable, the set of environments meaning in a process
• Runtime environment, a virtual machine state which gives a software services for processes or programs while a computer is running
• Integrated development environment, a kind of computer software that helps computer programmers in developing software
• Desktop environment, in computing, is graphical user interface to the computer

Related

• Environmentalism, a concern with the preservation of the environment. It studies the biota (living things), the environment, and their interactions.
• Environmental movement = same as above.
• Ecology, a sub-discipline of biology. It is often confused with the environment in general.