Introduction The existence of global issues and challenges (including disasters, poverty, climate change) has prompted a response in the form of international resilience and sustainable development frameworks (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs [OCHA], n.d.a). As demonstrated by Murray (2014) and Roberts, Andrei, Huq, and Flint (2015), the three recent frameworks (Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SF), Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), and the agreement of the 21st Conference of the UN Parties in Paris) are united not only by their high-profile nature. Instead, the three frameworks can and should be used in synergy in the “post-2015 development agenda” (Roberts et al., 2013, p. 1024). In the present paper, the three frameworks will be used to locate and define the concepts of development, sustainability, and resilience as well as the relationships between them in an attempt to determine the synergy between both the notions and the frameworks. Definitions According to the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine [NA] (2012), resilience can be defined as “the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from, and more successfully adapt to adverse events” (p. 1). As for development and sustainability, they tend to be used in the form of the phrase “sustainable development” by all the three frameworks (Paris Climate Change Conference [PCCC], 2015b; United Nations [UN], 2015; United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction [UNISDR], 2015). This phrase usually goes without a definition, but in the historical report “Our common future” by the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (1987), it is described as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (par. 1). These definitions will be used for the present analysis. Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction SF is an UN-approved framework that is aimed specifically at disaster management, especially disaster risk reduction, which is why its primary expected outcome consists of building resilience (UNISDR, 2015, p. 12). Concerning sustainable development and SF, OCHA (n.d.a) rightfully states that development and disaster management are supposed to be planned for and carried out simultaneously so that the underlying issues are addressed together with the more acute ones. As a result, UNISDR (2015) places SF within the general goal for sustainable development as a means of achieving it (p. 9). It is especially evident in the way SF discusses resilience in the context of some of SDG, such as poverty eradication or climate change resistance (UNISDR, 2015, pp. 9-10). It can be concluded that there is a certain interrelationship between the three notions of resilience, sustainability, and development with resilience being a basis for sustainable development, and even though SF focuses on resilience, it cannot avoid sustainability or development altogether. Sustainable Development Goals SDG is an ongoing project which is being refined as more goals are added to it. For instance, in 2015, end poverty goal was added (UN, 2015). Naturally, SDG in