The phrase "a certain environment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific but unspecified setting or context in which something occurs.
Example: "In a certain environment, the plants thrive better due to the unique soil composition."
Alternatives: "a specific setting" or "a particular context".
It is a product of a certain environment.
It's the help that counts: "The right help can make or break a certain environment.
It would be naïve to think that a mere long weekend spent in a certain environment would wreak lifelong changes.
"Children in affluent families are provided a certain environment that plays a powerful role," Mr. Smith said.
What we're talking about when we mention "stylized" violence is really more like abstracted violence, violence that's put in a certain environment of remoteness from reality.
Without it, people are more at the mercy of their moods, of how a certain environment or person makes them feel at that moment.
Williams notes a similarity with Timothy Leary's fascination with setting – that a certain environment is more conducive to providing a psychedelic, life-changing, religious experience when taking LSD.
They let mice get used to a certain environment so that they would remember it, and chemically labeled the neurons where the memory was laid down.
My father [Jonathan Aitken] was a politician, as the Guardian knows, so I guess I grew up in a certain environment, then my father went to jail and we lost everything.
At every moment, the universe is telling him, 'Sorry, bub, you're not God,' and he's screaming, 'No, you're wrong and I'm going to prove it to you!' " Of course, in a certain environment — around indulgent parents, say, or yes-men — Part X can be effective.
There is something of an echo of his father in his assertion that his work "is all about disagreements, between the coach and the sporting director," and his admission that he "needs to be in a certain environment, with a good feeling with the owner and the chief executive".
