Jharna Pathak is Assistant Professor, Gujarat Institute of Development Research and Secretary, Ahmedabad Women’s Action Group, Ahmedabad. Dr. Pathak's research interests are policy and institutional development in the areas of natural resource management, gender and development. She has contributed to debates on community based natural resource management through research studies. She has co-authored a book on Community Natural Resource Management and Poverty in India: Evidence from Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh , published by Sage Publications in 2016. She has also co-edited a volume of essays titled, Tribal Development in Western India, published by Routledge, New Delhi in 2014. Currently, she is focusing on two areas of research: one, understanding the socio-legal help in protecting women victims of domestic violence and two, effectiveness and outcomes of managing the village commons through community participation.