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Perhaps I could have called the article Environment (ecology). This may cause some confusion however, since ecology is often confused with environmental issues. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 09:13, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
I was trying to find a page regarding the use of environment in the sense of the environment of a particular organism, and I was surprised to discover than WP apparently has none. This article seems to be the closest currently, but the sense here seems to be much more about ecology and the environments of large collections of organisms. This page could be expanded to include the concept I'm seeking, or alternatively a new page could be created. Any opinions on this? Mkcmkc (talk) 16:05, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
outdoors and outdoor goes to Environment (biophysical) and Wilderness. Just a note. 24.31.247.114 (talk) 00:25, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
Mr. Rubin how is Human impact on the environment not "any effects of human activity" by wp:piped links intuition? 108.73.114.77 (talk) 04:12, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
I recently started a talk in natural environment, with the aim of improving its definition. I have soon found that my efforts should start here, though. I have some ideas that would propose for consideration.
We could begin considering that environment is always environment of something. For instance it can be the environment of one individual living being, as it was reflected in a precedent talk of this same page; or of an entire ecosystem. The term is also often used as relative to the present human population on earth. Another possible consideration is that the environment is the environment of all life on earth.
As there is an other aspect very connected with the precedent, I will go into it now. The second point to consider is what elements constitute the environment, and particularly if life should be included in it. Logically, if we consider the environment of a single individual, it is indeed surrounded and influenced by the rest of life. But what if we take the environment of the entire life on earth, then it is not so clear that this same life environs itself. But if we consider it relative to humanity, then it clearly includes all non human life. I am currently reading a French translation of a German work by Hans-Jürgen Otto, "Forest Ecology". His approach is to consider and describe what he calls "Physical environment", and this is the only environment he considers in the entire work.
To sum up, I think that there is not a unique definition.--Auró (talk) 13:29, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
By definition a natural environment is a biophysical environment: "The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial." What is the difference between these two articles? Do we need two articles?
The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Calidum 14:10, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
– Per WP:COMMONNAME; by far the majority of unqualified usages of "Environment," and many of the qualified ones, are referring to the biophysical environment (which is why we have, for instance, Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment and not Wikipedia:WikiProject Biophysical environment). The other, much less frequently used, usages can be handled on the disambiguation page. UnitedStatesian (talk) 18:42, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
I've taken the liberty of correcting a miss-spelling of minimize in the Environmentalism portion of related studies, but I've also moved Biophysics from see also to related studies. Biophysics studies all in some way are conducted in the biophysical environment, so I've also added a short description of what it is and how it relates to the above section. CynicalPixel (talk) 15:00, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
English 43.250.211.221 (talk) 11:29, 1 May 2022 (UTC)