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Natural environment The natural environment or natural world encompasses all life, living and non-living things occurring nature, naturally, meaning in this case not Artificiality, artificial. The term is most often applied to the Earth or some parts of Earth. Th ...

, all living and non-living things occurring naturally *

Biophysical environment A biophysical environment is a biotic and abiotic surrounding of an organism or population, and consequently includes the factors that have an influence in their survival, development, and evolution. A biophysical environment can vary in scale f ...

, 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 Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere level. Ecology overlaps wi ...

, 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 The term built environment refers to human-made conditions and is often used in architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, public health, sociology, and anthropology, among others. These curated spaces provide the setting for human ac ...

, constructed surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places *

Social environment The social environment, social context, sociocultural context or milieu refers to the immediate physical and social setting in which people live or in which something happens or develops. It includes the culture that the individual was educate ...

, 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) In type theory a typing environment (or typing context) represents the association between variable names and data types. More formally an environment \Gamma is a set or ordered list of pairs \langle x,\tau \rangle, usually written as x:\tau, where ...

, 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 In computer programming, a runtime system or runtime environment is a sub-system that exists both in the computer where a program is created, as well as in the computers where the program is intended to be run. The name comes from the compile t ...

, a virtual machine state which provides software services for processes or programs while a computer is running

Other physical and cultural environments

Arts, entertainment and publishing

In computing

See also