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
In computing:
- Desktop environment, in computing, the graphical user interface to the computer
- Environment variable, the set of environments defined in a process
- Integrated development environment, a type of computer software that assists computer programmers in developing software
- Runtime environment, a virtual machine state which provides software services for processes or programs while a computer is running