Considering justice issues in risk management can foster sustainable development if it includes several relevant dimensions. This report presents research conducted during the Young Scientists Summer Program 2022 at the International Institute of Applied System Analysis. First, a conceptual framework called risk justice is elaborated. Risk justice encompasses distributive, corrective, and procedural justice, and examines all of them under four dimensions that are related to sustainable development: social, ecological, spatial, and temporal justice. Secondly, a retrospective analysis of disaster risk management international guidelines is conducted as an illustration of the conceptual framework application. A content analysis of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 and the European Floods Directive is executed and the results show several elements in the documents that can be implicitly related to most of the dimensions of risk justice, even if fairness issues are rarely explicitly mentioned. Both guidelines underline various issues related to the social and spatial aspects of procedural and distributive justice. Some gaps are identified in the other dimensions, such as the participation of representatives of future generations and non-human interests, as well as suggestions of corrective measures which are often missing. In conclusion, promoting the use of the conceptual risk justice framework for facilitating discussions would enable clarification and transparency concerning fairness issues in risk management, and encourage a complex system understanding of its contribution to sustainable development.