major accounts of policy continuity and change in cross-border policy domains: negotiation
analysis (NA), the advocacy coalition framework (ACF), and the punctuated-equilibrium (PE)
framework. These frameworks are used to analyze policies for the river Scheldt estuary
between 1967 and 2005. The estuary of the river Scheldt is situated partly in the Belgian
region of Flanders and partly in the Netherlands. Major international policy issues in this …