View: System Environment (Context)
Physical Environment
The physical environment establishes the life support system for a person. This includes:
- Food, Water, Air
- Shelter, Sanitation, Waste
- Transportation, Communications, Energy
- Health, Education, Emergency Services,
In addition, the physical environment provides the context for:
- Natural Systems.
- Designed Systems (physical and abstract)
Cognitive Environment
The environment may impact the ability of a person to think. These impacts may come from noise, light, temperature, etc. Other cognitive impacts may come from stress (social environment), health (physical environment), These effects may disrupt the state of a person and their cognitive abilities.
The ability to take time to reflect or calm is an important cognitive environment to find or create through meditation, biofeedback or quiet spaces in nature or in a built environment.
Social Environment
A person is a member of many social systems. Each social system provides a context for participation.
A person must be able to switch their context from one social system to another.
- The person to person interactions relates to any social system that the person participates in or interacts with
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