Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The word "habitat" has been in use since about 1755 and derives from the Latin habitāre, to inhabit, from habēre, to have or to hold.Habitat can be defined as the natural environment of an organism, the type of place in which it is natural for it to live and grow.
Habitat (a trading name of Argos Limited) is a brand of household furnishings in the United Kingdom and the main homewares brand within the Sainsbury's group.. Founded in 1964 by Sir Terence Conran, it merged with a number of other retailers in the 1980s to create Storehouse plc, before the latter sold Habitat to the Ikano Group, owned by the Kamprad family, in 1992.
Habitat for Humanity New York City and Westchester County (Habitat NYC and Westchester) was founded in 1984 as an independent affiliate, serving families across the five boroughs through home construction and preservation, beginning with their first build on the Lower East Side, during the first Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project. [14]
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is the United Nations programme [1] for human settlements and sustainable urban development.It was established in 1977 as an outcome of the first United Nations Conference on Human Settlements and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat I) held in Vancouver, Canada, in 1976.
Pages in category "Habitat" The following 124 pages are in this category, out of 124 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Note: This category should only contain articles about things for which being a habitat (i.e. being inhabited) is a defining characteristic. E.g. a puddle may sometimes be a habitat, but is a puddle whether or not there is anything living in it.
Habitat is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by LucasArts. It is the first attempt at a large-scale commercial virtual community [ 4 ] [ 5 ] that was graphic based.
The term habitat comes from ecology, and includes many interrelated features, especially the immediate physical environment, the urban environment or the social environment. At the individual and family levels, one's habitat is one's home and the buildings in which one goes about daily life.