In general, environment refers to the surroundings Surroundings are the area around a given physical or geographical point or place. The exact definition depends on the field. Surroundings can also be used in geography and mathematics, as well as philosophy, with the literal or metaphorically extended definition of an object.
Environment may refer to:
- The natural environment The natural environment, commonly referred to simply as the environment, encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally on Earth or some region thereof.[citation needed], all living and non-living things that occur naturally on Earth
- Built environment The phrase built environment refers to the human-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging in scale from personal shelter to neighborhoods to the large-scale civic surroundings, constructed surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places
- Environment (biophysical) The biophysical environment is the symbiosis between the physical environment and the biological life forms within the environment, and includes all variables that comprise the Earth's biosphere. The biophysical environment can be divided into two categories: the natural environment and the built environment, with some overlap between the two, the physical Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through space-time, as well as all applicable concepts, such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism
- Environment (systems) In science and engineering, a system is the part of the universe that is being studied, while the environment is the remainder of the universe that lies outside the boundaries of the system. It is also known as the surroundings, and in thermodynamics, as the reservoir. Depending on the type of system, it may interact with the environment by, the surroundings of a physical system that may interact with the system by exchanging mass, energy, or other properties
- Environmental art It is possible to trace the growth of environmental art as a "movement", beginning in the late 1960s or the 1970s. In its early phases it was most associated with sculpture—especially Site-specific art, Land art and Arte povera—having arisen out of mounting criticism of traditional sculptural forms and practices which were
- Environmental determinism Environmental determinism, also known as climatic determinism or geographical determinism, is the view that the physical environment, rather than social conditions, determines culture. Those who believe this view say that humans are strictly defined by stimulus-response and cannot deviate
- Environmental policy Environmental policy is any [course of] action deliberately taken [or not taken] too manage human activities with a view to prevent, reduce, or mitigate harmful effects on nature and natural resources, and ensuring that man-made changes to the environment do not have harmful effects on humans
- Environmental psychology Environmental psychology is an interdisciplinary field focused on the interplay between humans and their surroundings. The field defines the term environment broadly, encompassing natural environments, social settings, built environments, learning environments, and informational environments. Since its conception, the field has been committed to
- Environmental quality Environmental quality is a general term which can refer to varied characteristics that relate to the natural environment as well as the built environment, such as air and water purity or pollution, noise and the potential effects which such characteristics may have on physical and mental health caused by human activities
- Environmental science Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical and biological sciences to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems. Environmental science provides an integrated, quantitative, and interdisciplinary approach to the study of environmental systems, the study of the interactions among the physical, chemical and biological components of the environment
- Environments (series) Environments is a series of LPs, cassettes, 8-Track cartridges and CDs created by producer and sound recordist Irving S. Teibel for Syntonic Research Inc. between 1970 and 1979. The series consists of recordings of nature sounds such as a seashore with crashing waves and a thunderstorm with falling rain. The series ignited a worldwide interest in A series of LPs, cassettes and CDs depicting natural sounds
- Knowledge environment In the broadest sense knowledge environments may be defined as social practices, technological and physical arrangements intended to facilitate collaborative knowledge building, decision making, inference or discovery, depending on the epistemological premises and goals
- Social environment The social environment , also known as the milieu, is the identical or similar social positions and social roles as a whole that influence the individuals of a group. The social environment of an individual is the culture that he or she was educated and/or lives in, and the people and institutions with whom the person interacts. A given social, the culture that an individual lives in, and the people and institutions with whom they interact
In computing:
- Desktop environment In graphical computing, a desktop environment commonly refers to a style of graphical user interface (GUI) that is based on the desktop metaphor which can be seen on most modern personal computers today. These graphical interfaces are designed to assist the user in easily accessing and configuring (or modifying) the most important (or frequently, in computing, the graphical user interface to the computer
- Environment variable Environment variables are a set of dynamic named values that can affect the way running processes will behave on a computer, the set of environments defined in a process
- Integrated development environment An integrated development environment also known as integrated design environment or integrated debugging environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development. An IDE normally consists of:, a type of computer software that assists computer programmers in developing software
- Runtime environment In computer science, the qualifier run time, run-time, runtime, or execution time refers to a single installation of a given software or computer program on a single computer, a virtual machine state which provides software services for processes or programs while a computer is running
See also
- Ambient (disambiguation)
- Category:Environment This category is for articles about anthropogenic effects on the natural environment. See environment for other uses of the word, for articles relating to the effect of human activity on the environment
- Ecology Ecology is the scientific study of the distributions, abundance and relations of organisms and their interactions with the environment. Ecology includes the study of plant and animal populations, plant and animal communities and ecosystems. Ecosystems describe the web or network of relations among organisms at different scales of organization, a sub-discipline of biology often confused with the environment in general
- Environmental movement The environmental movement, a term that includes the conservation and green politics, is a diverse scientific, social, and political movement for addressing environmental issues
- Environmentalism Environmentalism is a broad philosophy and social movement regarding concerns for environmental conservation and improvement of the state of the environment. Environmentalism and environmental concerns are often represented by the color green, a concern with the preservation of the environment
- List of environmental issues This is a list of environmental issues that are due to human activities. These articles relate to the anthropogenic effects on the natural environment
- Natural landscape Natural landscapes are landscapes beyond cultural influence. "A natural landscape is one that is unaffected by human activity", SES501 Landscape Ecology and GIS, Keith Ferdinands, Charles Darwin University, July 2004,
- All pages beginning with "Environment"
- Children Youth and Environments Journal
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