Environment

Environment most often refers to:

• Natural environment, all living and non-living things occur naturally
• Biophysical environment, the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism or a group of organisms

Other physical and cultural environments

• Ecology, the branch of ethology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings
• Environment (systems), the surroundings of a physical system that may interact with the system by exchanging mass, energy, or other properties.
• Built environment, constructed surroundings that provide the settings 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
• Market environment, business term

Arts, entertainment and publishing

• Environment (magazine), a peer-reviewed, popular environmental science publication founded in 1958
• Environment (1917 film), 1917 American silent film
• Environment (1922 film), 1922 American silent film
• Environment (1927 film), 1927 Australian silent film
• Environments (album series), a series of LPs, cassettes and CDs depicting natural sounds
• Environments (album), a 2007 album by The Future Sound of London
• "Environment", a song by Dave from Psychodrama
• Environments (journal), a scientific journal

In computing

• Environment (type theory), the association between variable 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
• Runtime environment, a virtual machine state which provides software services for processes or programs while a computer is running
• Environment variable, a variable capable of affecting the way processes behave on a computer

See also

• Environmentalism, a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement regarding concerns for environmental protection
• Environmental disease
• Environmental health
• Environmental science
• Environmental history of the United States