Environment
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Environment or environmental may refer to:
- Environment, the external conditions, resources, stimuli etc. with which an organism interacts (see also habitat and ecological niche).
- 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
- Environmentalism, a concern with the preservation of the natural environment
In computing:
- environment variable, the set of environments defined in a process
- Runtime environment, a virtual machine state which provides software services for processes or programs while a computer is running
- Integrated development environment, a type of computer software that assists computer programmers in developing software
- Desktop environment, in computing, is graphical user interface to the computer
See also
- Ecology - sub-discipline of biology often confused with the environment in general.