Floods pose a significant risk to human health and infrastructure in the landscapes where people live. To address flooding concerns, NJ has implemented several initiatives to acquire flood prone properties through buyout programs. While removal of properties within flood zone can protect human health and safety other challenges arise from these buyouts initiatives that can limit resilience of those landscapes. These challenges can be overcome through an ecologically centered landscape resilience approach that combines principles of engineering, ecology, and landscape architecture with social science to transform acquired properties into public assets. In this presentation, we will explore the best practices for implementing landscape resilience initiatives in flood prone areas.