There are lots of questions for 2014. After another round of devastating natural disasters, is this the year we pin down a definition of the much-ballyhooed concept of resilience? What about “women’s empowerment?” In Africa, will there be signs of accelerating demographic transitions? Will China solve its water-energy choke point? And can other countries too balance natural resource extraction and climate change adaptation with equitable development?

Chances are, there will be just as many more questions as answers by the end of this year, but let’s start ambitious. Here are the top posts by unique pageviews for the first month of 2014:

1. Can China Solve Its Water-Energy Choke Point? Wilson Center Launches ‘China Environment Series 12’, Susan Chan Shifflett

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

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

4. Natural Gas and Albacore: What Tuna Says About the Future of Mozambique, Laura Henson

5. The Year That Resilience Gets Real, Roger-Mark De Souza and Meaghan Parker

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

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

8. The Great Anatolian Project: Is Water Management a Panacea or Crisis Multiplier for Turkey’s Kurds? Ilektra Tsakalidou

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

10. Kirya: How a Village in Tanzania Shows the Challenge of Just Climate Adaptation, Elizabeth Edna Wangui

Photo Credit: Three Gorges Dam in 2009, courtesy of NASA and flickr user Euclid vanderKroew.