David Matless, Charles Watkins and Paul Merchant's "Nature Trails: The Production of Instructive Landscapes in Britain, 1960-72," Rural History, Vol. 21, No. 1 (2010), pp. 97-131.
"The nature trail idea, first developed in the 1920s as an experiment in outdoor education in North America, was introduced to Britain by the Council for Nature...The nature trail was presented as an educational and leisure device for urban as well as rural environments, and promoted through publications, press coverage and radio and television broadcasts." (p. 97)
Following the British model and the Countryside Act 1968, British Hong Kong introduced similar policy and enforced the Country Parks Ordinance in 1976 as an educational and leisure means to civilise the colonised and modernize the colonial city.
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