Environment

Environment may refer to:

• Environment , 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

[Site] United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Official site of the EPA, the U.S. federal agency whose mission is to protect human health and safeguard the natural environment.
www.epa.gov

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<

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