While disaster risk management is an essential feature of sustainable development, the implementation of a disaster risk management strategy does not automatically contribute to all the facets of sustainable development and can even result in conflicting effects. Evaluating such contributions is essential to inform future choices in risk governance, and this chapter conceptually develops two mechanisms that should be taken into consideration in those evaluations: transfers of risks and path dependency. Transfers of risks happen when the actions to reduce one disaster risk increase the probability or the potential negative consequences of another one. Path dependency is about how past decisions frame current ones, and by extension, how future possibilities are limited by current strategies. Existing evaluation literature and frameworks offer avenues for tackling the complexity resulting from these two mechanisms when evaluating the contributions of disaster risk management to sustainable development.