Glossary
Information about social and environmental consequences
What is information about social and environmental consequences?
Information about social and environmental consequences communicates effects of a behavior on social relationships, other people, or the environment.
What kinds of consequences count?
The taxonomy distinguishes these messages from information about health or emotional consequences. The focus extends beyond the person’s own health: effects on relationships, shared spaces, resource use or waste may be relevant.
Illustrative example
A workplace uses its measured printing data to show how repeated single-sided printouts contribute to paper use and waste. The message explains an environmental consequence. A message about how noisy calls interrupt nearby colleagues would explain a social consequence.
Why it matters
The original BCT Taxonomy v1 definitions identify this as technique 5.3. People can care about what an action does to others, not only what it does for them personally. This technique makes those consequences explicit. The taxonomy defines the content; effectiveness requires a comparison in the setting where it will be used.