Environment

In general, environment refers to the surroundings of an object. Environment may refer to:

  • The 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
  • Environment (biophysical), the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism
  • Environment (systems), the surroundings of a physical system that may interact with the system by exchanging mass, energy, or other properties
  • Environmental art
  • Environmental determinism
  • Environmental policy
  • Environmental psychology
  • Environmental quality
  • Environmental science, the study of the interactions among the physical, chemical and biological components of the environment
  • Environments (series) A series of LPs, cassettes and CDs depicting natural sounds
  • Knowledge environment
  • Social environment, the culture that an individual lives in, and the people and institutions with whom they interact

See also

  • Ambient (disambiguation)
  • Category: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
  • Environmental epidemiology
  • Environmental health
  • Environmental movement
  • Environmentalism, a concern with the preservation of the environment
  • Epidemiology
  • List of environmental issues
  • Natural landscape
  • All pages beginning with "Environment"
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