Our social environment consists primarily of systems that groups of people have organised to satisfy their needs. It includes all skills, all artificial structures, all means of agricultural and industrial production, all tools, all means of transport and communication and all social activities. In others words: socio-technical systems. When we speak of the social environment, we generally think of such things as social and cultural institutions (families, religion and values, law, education, economics and politics) together with what is referred to as our built environment.
Our built environment is created by people and includes buildings and other infra-structural works such as towns, cities, roads, seawalls and drainage and irrigation schemes. There is no single social environment; there are many. Each event, such as proposed legislation or construction of a major facility, as long as it is located in an identifiable place or time, has its own social environment.
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