“Population was long perceived as mainly an issue in terms of people’s resource appetites: more people means more demand for stuff,” said The New York Times’ Andrew Revkin in an interview last month. “But in vulnerable places it actually means a bigger exposure to hazard.”

Exposure and resilience to hazard was a common theme on the blog last month, with new posts on Bangladesh’s history of development successes, an examination of women’s empowerment and its effect on state behavior, a look at several new “geojournalism” sites, and two new event summaries on the state of the oceans and defining “resilience.”

These are the top 10 most popular posts from February 2014:

1. Andrew Revkin: Local Population Dynamics Crucial to Understanding Climate Vulnerability, Schuyler Null

2. Challenging Patriarchy: The Changing Definition of Women’s Empowerment, Donald Borenstein

3. State of the Oceans 2013: Acidification, Overfishing Major Threats to Ecosystem Health, Sean R. Tracy

4. Why Has the Demographic Transition Stalled in Sub-Saharan Africa? Elizabeth Leahy Madsen

5. Basket Case No More? Bangladesh’s Successes Portend Resilience in Face of Change, Saleemul Huq and James Totton

6. Does Women’s Empowerment Encourage Good Global Citizenship? Alison Brysk

7. Better Mapping for Better Journalism: InfoAmazonia and the Growth of GeoJournalism, William Shubert

8. Flooding in Uttarakhand Shows Why India Needs to Take Environmental Security More Seriously, Dhanasree Jayaram

9. Bouncing Forward: Why “Resilience” Is Important and Needs a Definition, Donald Borenstein

10. New UN Population Projections Released: Pockets of High Fertility Drive Overall Increase, Elizabeth Leahy Madsen

Photo Credit: Market in Ibadan, Nigeria, courtesy of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture.