Environment

Environment may refer to:

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 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

Ambient
Environmentalism, a concern with the preservation of the environment
Environmental movement
Ecology, a sub-discipline of biology often confused with the environment in general
Category:Environment, for articles relating to the effect of human activity on the environment
List of environmental issues

See also Natural environment The '''biophysical''' environment is the symbiosis between the physical environment and the Biological See also Nature The natural environment, commonly referred to simply as the environment, is a terminology that is comprised of all living and The phrase built environment refers to the man-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places The social environment (context, also known as the Milieu, is the identical or similar Social positions and Social roles as a whole that influence the individuals Environmental science is the study of interactions among physical chemical and biological components of the environment. Environmental psychology is an interdisciplinary field focused on the interplay between humans and their surroundings Environmental determinism, also known as climatic determinism or geographical determinism, is the view that the physical environment rather than social conditions Environmental policy is any (course of action deliberately taken (or not taken to manage human activities with a view to prevent reduce or mitigate harmful effects on nature and natural Environmental quality is a set of properties and characteristics of the environment either generalized or local as they impinge on human beings and other organisms The term Environmental Art is used in two different senses The term can be used generally to refer to art dealing with ecological issues and/or the natural, such as the formal the Environment variables are a set of dynamic values that can affect the way running processes will behave on a computer In Computer science, runtime or run time describes the operation of a Computer program, the duration of its execution from beginning to termination In Computing, an integrated development environment ( IDE) is a Software application that provides comprehensive facilities to Computer programmers In graphical computing a desktop environment ( DE) commonly refers to a style of Graphical user interface (GUI that is based on the Desktop metaphor which Environmentalism is a broad philosophy and Social movement centered on a concern for the conservation and improvement of the environment. The environmental movement, a term that includes the conservation and green movements is a diverse scientific social and Political movement for Ecology (from Greek grc οἶκος oikos, "house(hold" and grc -λογία -logia) is the scientific study of This is a list of environmental issues that are due to human activity

Dictionary

-noun

The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
The natural world or ecosystem.
All the elements over which a designer has no control and that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
(computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
(programming) The environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of identifiers in the function's scope and their bindings at that point.

Environment

-proper noun

(computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.

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