Brooke Shaw

Brooke Shaw is a research economist at RTI International with expertise in applied economic and policy analysis focused on natural resource, agricultural, environmental, and climate systems. She specializes in water–energy–land nexus analysis, spatial modeling of natural resources, land suitability and spatial screening analyses, environmental cost‑benefit analysis, and climate resilience and community impact assessments.

Currently, Ms. Shaw supports climate, energy, water, agricultural, and natural resource projects for federal and state agencies. Her work integrates environmental and resource economics, systems modeling, and data science to evaluate mitigation, adaptation, and resilience strategies under climate, policy, and demand uncertainty. She contributes to economy‑wide and sectoral policy modeling, including partial equilibrium and optimization frameworks linking energy, agriculture, land use, and environmental systems, to evaluate greenhouse gas mitigation and natural resource investments.

Ms. Shaw also conducts spatially explicit modeling and spatial suitability analyses to support natural resource and infrastructure planning. Her work includes optimization of renewable energy and agricultural supply networks, water resource valuation, hydrologic risk assessment of western water supply systems, scenario‑based evaluation of climate and environmental policy, and cost‑benefit analysis of conservation, river restoration, and environmental flow investments. She develops geospatial indicators and decision‑support tools to inform statewide and community‑level climate, land use, and natural resource planning.

Prior to joining RTI, Ms. Shaw was a research associate specializing in water resource economics and conducted research in designing an innovative approach to conservation easement valuation in Colorado.