Environment is that set of surroundings which influences the life and activities of an animate object, human or animals. It consists of the totality of all those external conditions and influences which affect the life and development of a living being. As P. Gisbert says, “environment is anything immediately surrounding an object and exerting a direct influence on it”. It is of two types: (1) natural and physical or geographical environment, and (2) man-made (social or technological) environment otherwise called as material culture. In so far as natural environment is concerned, “generally speaking, the agro-pastoral civilization respects the landscape and strives to adopt itself to it while industrialization demolishes it and transforms it into a threat to life completely.

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Keywords: Environment, Industrialization, Geographical Environment, Technological Environment.