IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science Purpose-Led Publishing, find out more. Paper • The following article isOpen access Policy adoption process on climate change adaptation N Lestari, B Kusumasari, E Susanto and Y T Keban Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, Volume 905, The 8th International Conference on Sustainable Agriculture and Environment, 24-25 August 2021, Surakarta, Indonesia. Citation N Lestari et al 2021 IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci. 905 012086 DOI 10.1088/1755-1315/905/1/012086 DownloadArticle PDF Authors References Download PDF Article metrics 370 Total downloads 11 citation on Dimensions. Share this article Article information Abstract This study aims to explore the process of policy adoption related to climate change adaptation. Specifically, this paper is based on the literature review process of scientific articles to map the definition of adaptation to climate change that is developing, then the forms of the policy adoption process that have been carried out. This study is exploratory in nature with the knowledge and determination of research topics that are still open. The researcher chose 2 keywords as emphasis, such as "climate change adaptation". AND "policy adoption". Sources of research use secondary data from tracing and collecting scientific articles indexed by Scopus. 35 of 659 articles were filtered and analyzed. Researchers use the Scholarly website, connected paper and VOSviewer to help analyze data. The study found that there is a knowledge gap between mitigation and adaptation. Adaptation is different than mitigation. From the results of mapping scientific articles, it can be concluded that discourse related to the adoption of climate change adaptation policies, the discourses that are often discussed at the academic level most of the 2006-2019 studies are mostly street level organizations, strategies, vulnerability indicators, tourism sector, mitigation, policy environment, barriers, maladaptation, policy context, society.