Floods and evacuations due to flooding can increase vulnerability and affect community resilience. This article examines how the Kashechewan First Nation, located in the flood-prone Subarctic southwestern James Bay region of Canada, is affected by the frequent risk of spring flooding. Kashechewan, an isolated and remote Indigenous community, is located along the Albany River in northern Ontario. Kashechewan First Nation has been evacuated 14 times to at least 22 host communities across Ontario since 2004 (consecutively from 2004 to 2008 and 2012–2019) because of actual flooding events or flooding risk and the potential failure of the dike that surrounds the community. Through a collaboration with the First Nation, qualitative semi-structured interviews were completed with 41 participants. Results show that spring flood risk has significantly increased the community's physical and socio-cognitive vulnerability. Flooding frequently impacts community infrastructure, traditional spring hunting and harvesting, and the local economy. It also significantly increases the stress and anxiety of residents every year as spring approaches. Dealing with the regular flooding risk and recurring emergency experiences have improved the community's disaster preparedness and coping capacity, but residents' evacuation experiences negatively affect their well-being during and after the evacuations. The short-term responses to the physical vulnerability of people frequently experiencing the elevated hazards risks help increasing specific resilience-building and coping capacity in the short-run. However, such short-term responses can also produce greater vulnerability in the long-term. Similarly, if the long-term adaptation responses for resilience-building do not consider the short-term coping capacities and community-specific ground realities, they can significantly increase the physical vulnerability of residents.

洪水造成的洪水和疏散会增加脆弱性并影响社区的复原力。本文研究了位于加拿大詹姆斯湾地区西南部易受洪水侵袭的亚北极地区的 Kashechewan 原住民如何受到春季洪水频繁风险的影响。Kashechewan 是一个偏远的土著社区，位于安大略省北部的奥尔巴尼河沿岸。自 2004 年以来（连续从 2004 年到 2008 年和 2012-2019 年），由于实际的洪水事件或洪水风险以及社区周围堤坝的潜在故障，Kashechewan First Nation 已被疏散 14 次到安大略省至少 22 个收容社区。通过与原住民合作，完成了对 41 名参与者的定性半结构化访谈。结果表明，春季洪水风险显着增加了社区的身体和社会认知脆弱性。洪水经常影响社区基础设施、传统的春季狩猎和收获以及当地经济。随着春天的临近，它也每年显着增加居民的压力和焦虑。应对经常发生的洪水风险和反复发生的紧急情况提高了社区的备灾和应对能力，但居民的疏散经历对疏散期间和疏散后的幸福感产生了负面影响。对经常经历灾害风险升高的人的身体脆弱性的短期反应有助于在短期内提高具体的复原力建设和应对能力。然而，从长远来看，这种短期反应也会造成更大的脆弱性。同样，如果针对复原力建设的长期适应响应不考虑短期应对能力和社区特定的地面现实，它们会显着增加居民的身体脆弱性。