Environment

Environment may refer to:

Physical and cultural settings

• Environment (biophysical), the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism or a group of organisms
  • Environmental epidemiology
  • Environmental health
  • Environmental psychology
• Environment (systems), the surroundings of a physical system that may interact with the system by exchanging mass, energy, or other properties
• Natural environment or physical environment, in ecology, consisting of all living and non-living things
  • Environmental art
  • Environmental determinism
  • Environmental movement
  • Environmental policy
  • Environmental quality
  • Environmental science, the study of the interactions among the physical, chemical, and biological components of the environment
• Built environment, constructed surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places
• Knowledge environment, social practices and technological and physical arrangements intended to facilitate knowledge building, decision making, inference or discovery
• Social environment, the culture that an individual lives in, and the people and institutions with whom they interact

In arts and entertainment

• Environment (film), a 1918 silent film
• Environment (magazine), a peer-reviewed, popular environmental science publication founded in 1958
• Environments (album series), a series of LPs, cassettes and CDs depicting natural sounds

In computing

• Environment (type theory), association between variables names and data types in type theory
• Deployment environment, in software deployment, a computer system in which a computer program or software component is deployed and executed
• Desktop environment, the graphical user interface to the computer
• Environment mapping, an image-based lighting technique in computer graphics
• Environment variables, the dynamic set of variables defined in a process
• Integrated development environment, a type of software that assists computer programmers in developing software
• Runtime environment, a virtual machine state which provides software services for processes or programs while a computer is running

See also

• Ambient (disambiguation)
• Category:Natural environment, for articles relating to the effect of human activity on the environment
• Ecology, a sub-discipline of biology often confused with the environment in general
• Environmentalism, a concern with the preservation of the environment
• Epidemiology
• List of environmental issues
• Natural landscape
• All pages beginning with "Environment"